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I knew what I wanted to do at a very young age. My first memory of knowing in my heart that I would fly airplanes was in elementary school. I don’t know exactly how it started, whether it was a passing interest of my brothers’ that I latched onto at some point, but as soon as I became aware that being a pilot was a career choice, I was laser-focused. There was nothing else I wanted to be but a pilot.

A single mom at 19, Christy Wong worked full-time and earned a double major, all the while admiring the 737s flying over Las Vegas. Christy waving from the Wong Warrior “One day I am going to fly that!” she declared in 2007. Later, Christy met her husband-to-be, Steve Wong, and moved to Texas, where he worked as a corporate pilot. She kept telling him, “I want to fly. I want to be you, basically.” But Christy was pursuing her medical biochemistry masters and an allergy specia