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Jessica Cox — world's first licensed armless pilot
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An Evening with Jessica Cox

Born without arms, Jessica Cox is the world's first licensed armless pilot.

Sat · NOV 14, 2026 · 4:00 PM4517 E Mallory Circle Suite 109 · Mesa, AZ 85215Online sales close November 6

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The evening

This event supports Jessica's mission to build the impossible — an airplane she can fly using her feet.

  1. 4:00

    Book signing

    Meet Jessica, get a book signed, photos.

  2. 5:00

    Happy hour

    The silent auction opens.

  3. 6:00

    Dinner

  4. 6:45

    Jessica speaks

  5. 7:00

    Live auction

  6. 7:45

    Closing remarks

    The evening ends at eight.

When
Sat, Nov 14, 2026Doors 4:00 PM
Where
4517 E Mallory Circle Suite 109Mesa, AZ 85215
Tickets
Dinner included. Your name at the door is your ticket.Online sales close November 6.
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Evenings past

Rooms we won't forget.

3 evenings · 2024 — 2025
Pipe band in kilts at the BFTS Remembrance Day ceremony, lined up beside cadet headstones marked with Union Jack and Stars and Stripes flags at the Mesa Cemetery.
Sun · NOV 09, 2025No. 4 BFTS · Reunion · Remembrance · Mesa, Arizona

Falcon Field Festivities

Veterans, families, archivists

Three days of events for the No. 4 BFTS community and the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII. Sunday opened with the Remembrance Day Ceremony at Mesa Cemetery (10:45am, with descendant participation), an optional lunch at Thirsty Lion in Tempe Marketplace, then a 5:00pm celebration dinner at the Las Sendas Vista Pavilion overlooking the city. A memorabilia table collected items for loan to the No. 4 BFTS exhibit at the Mesa Historical Museum. Tuesday closed the weekend with the City of Mesa Veterans Day Parade, with descendants riding along.

Mike Mullane in his NASA flight suit holding a copy of Riding Rockets, between two attendees at the AAHG event, with a Space Shuttle model and stacks of signed books on the table.
Sun · APR 13, 2025Speaker Series · Book Signing · Phoenix, Arizona

An Evening with Astronaut Mike Mullane

Col. Mike Mullane — USAF, NASA · 3 Shuttle missions

Colonel Mullane flew F-111s as a weapons systems officer before NASA picked him for Group 8 — the Thirty-Five New Guys, the first shuttle class. Three flights: STS-41-D in 1984, then two classified Department of Defense missions on Atlantis. After NASA, he wrote 'Riding Rockets' — a candid, often hilarious memoir that became a bestseller — and has spent the years since teaching the world about the normalization of deviance and what really happens inside high-stakes teams. He brought the book table. He signed every copy. He knelt for every kid.

— Books sold out before the Q&A.

Mike Mullane kneeling with a young Cub Scout, both giving thumbs-up, while the scout's mother takes the photo.
Every kid got a thumbs-up.
The AAHG crew with Mike Mullane in front of the American flag at the end of the evening.
The AAHG crew + Mike at the close.
Wally Funk at Falcon Field with two AAHG members in front of a Stearman PT-17 in Army Air Corps livery.
Sat · NOV 09, 2024Speaker Series · Falcon Field · Mesa, Arizona

Wally Funk at Falcon Field

Wally Funk — Mercury 13, Blue Origin NS-16

In 1961, Wally was one of thirteen women who passed every astronaut qualification — physical, psychological, isolation tank — only to be told the program was for men. She kept flying anyway: 19,600+ hours, the FAA's first female aviation safety inspector, the NTSB's first female air-safety investigator, instructor to thousands. In July 2021, at 82, she finally went to space on Blue Origin NS-16 — at the time the oldest person to leave Earth. We caught her at Falcon Field, in front of a Stearman the BFTS cadets would have known.

— She didn't sit down once.

An open invitation

If you can come, please come.

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