Pilots with disabilities take to the skies with Able Flight

Students in this year's Able Flight program arrived on campus May 22 to overcome disabilities and take to the skies in Sky Arrow planes.

This year's class includes a retired U.S. Army captain who was wounded in combat by an improvised explosive device and an Indiana man who has no feeling from his chest down as a result of a childhood shooting accident. They are learning to fly through Able Flight, a North Carolina-based nonprofit organization which conducts the training at Purdue every year from May to July.

Read the full Purdue news release.

Additional information:

• Able Flight program helps those with disabilities learn to fly (WXIN/Fox 59)
• Pilots with disabilities take flight at Purdue (WLFI)