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Jessica Cox — world's first licensed armless pilot
Next event·Speaker Series·NOV 15, 2026

An Evening with Jessica Cox

Jessica Cox — world's first licensed armless pilot

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Cunningham Aviation · 4800 E Falcon Dr, Mesa, AZ 85215

01About the evening
Speaker Series

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

  • 2008

    Earned her pilot's certificate through an Able Flight scholarship.

  • Ercoupe

    Flies a 1940s ERCO 415-C entirely with her feet — one on the yoke, one on the throttle.

  • Author

    Disarm Your Limits — her memoir on perseverance and possibility.

  • Black belt

    First armless black belt in the American Taekwondo Association.

We're thrilled to host her — and her message of what's possible.

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

Proceeds support Jessica's mission to build an aircraft designed specifically to be flown with the feet.

—Rooms we won't forget

A few evenings worth keeping the lights on for.

2 featured
Wally Funk at Falcon Field with two AAHG members in front of a Stearman PT-17 in Army Air Corps livery.
NOV 09, 2024
Speaker 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.

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.
APR 13, 2025
Speaker 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.
03Some rooms past

A small archive of evenings.

3 entries · 2024 — 2025
20252 evenings
  • APR 13

    An Evening with Astronaut Mike Mullane

    Speaker Series · Book Signing · Phoenix, Arizona

  • NOV 09

    Falcon Field Festivities · No. 4 BFTS

    Reunion · Remembrance · Mesa, Arizona

20241 evening
  • NOV 09

    Wally Funk at Falcon Field

    Speaker Series · Falcon Field · Mesa, Arizona

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