One woman is soaring to new heights as the first Black female tactical jet pilot for the U.S. Navy. Madeline 'Maddy' Swegle said in a new video released by the Navy ahead of her July 31 winging ceremony. A Virginia native, Swegle became the U.S. Navy's first Black female tactical air
"I don't think the goal in my life is to necessarily be the first at anything. That was never something that I set out to do, [piloting] was just something I was interested in and I found out later," Lt. j.g. Madeline"Maddy" Swegle said in a new video released by the Navy ahead of her July 31 winging ceremony."I am really honored that I get to wear the wings and get to fly planes and call myself a pilot.
Now, Swegle will receive her Wings of Gold during a small ceremony at Naval Air Station in Kingsville, Texas, on July 31. — Naval Air Training July 9, 2020 Swegle said that she's dreamed of being a pilot ever since she was young and her parents would take her to see the Blue Angels, the Navy's flight demonstration squadron, when they would come to her hometown.
"[Jet piloting] is fun because it is difficult at the same time. I know that I had to work to get [the jet] to behave and it took a lot of fighting the aircraft and figuring out how it was going to perform," she explained in the video about her three years of training."Looking back it's amazing to think about where I started and I had never been in an airplane before so, it's just one step at a time.
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