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Jessica Cox was born without arms, but that has not stopped her from becoming the first pilot licensed to fly using only her feet. -- PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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'When she came up here driving a car,' Mr Traweek recalled, 'I knew she'd have no problem flying a plane.' -- PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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'She's a good pilot. She's rock solid,' said Parrish Traweek, 42, the flying instructor at San Manuel's Ray Blair Airport. -- PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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That slate is now covered with achievements from a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Arizona to two black belts in tae kwon do. -- PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Doctors never learned why she was born without arms, but she figured out early on that she didn't want to use prosthetic devices. -- PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Finding a plane that was compatible with her abilities was a task within itself. She found it in the Ercoupe, a plane manufactured in the mid-1940s.-- PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Her certificate qualifies her to fly a light-sport aircraft to altitudes of 10,000 feet. -- PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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