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Aviation Scholarship Essay

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I have been involved with aviation my entire life. Surprisingly enough, it all began with paper airplanes. As a young child I spent many of my days folding a variety of different paper airplane designs, exploring how each different fold would change the way it flew. As a result, this piqued my interest to explore the fundamentals of aviation. I could spend hours reading about aircraft design and learning about the history of flight. A few years later, at the age of nine, I saved up for my first radio controlled airplane. This was my introductory to radio controlled flight and taught me countless valuable life lessons. After several years of flying model airplanes, I decided to build my first racing drone. It was equipped with a first person view (FPV) video system. This allowed me to fly it from the drone's perspective, providing a bird's eye view of the landscape below. FPV gave me an entire new sense of freedom. With the headset on, I was no longer bound to the earth, but brought the ability to soar like an eagle. It's been almost two years since I first flew a …show more content…

Along with them on the scouting mission were some of the world's most talented drone pilots. It was such an honor to meet the people that I greatly look up to for their flying abilities. Since then, they've inspired me to push forward and improve upon my skills in drone racing and freestyle. Recently, I was invited by Scot Refsland to participate in the DroneNationals' freestyle event that is upcoming in August. I am very excited to participate in the national contest. After the DroneNationals are held in New York, a world drone championship will be held here in Hawaii. This event, called the DroneWorlds, will take place this October 17-22 on Oahu. It will be the ultimate showdown between the best pilots from around the world in both freestyle and racing

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