{"id":14447,"date":"2019-07-02T08:03:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T08:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/?p=14447"},"modified":"2019-07-02T08:03:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T08:03:46","slug":"meet-patricia-mawuli-porter-west-africas-only-female-flight-instructor-who-has-taught-girls-and-young-people-in-ghana-and-in-the-united-states-how-to-build-aircraft-hint-plus-20-south-afri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/meet-patricia-mawuli-porter-west-africas-only-female-flight-instructor-who-has-taught-girls-and-young-people-in-ghana-and-in-the-united-states-how-to-build-aircraft-hint-plus-20-south-afri\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Patricia Mawuli-Porter, West Africa\u2019s only female flight instructor who has taught girls and young people in Ghana and in the United States how to build aircraft [HINT: Plus 20 South African teenagers who are building an aircraft to fly them across Africa]"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>This is a recommended article that tells the story of young Africans - especially females - destroying myths about what their gender can or cannot do. Patricia Mawuli-Porter's story as West Africa's only female flight instructor is truly inspiring!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a 2018 Face2FaceAfrica report, Patricia Mawuli-Porter, West Africa\u2019s only female flight instructor taught girls and young people in Ghana and in the United States how to build aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>She was invited to the Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture fly-in in Oshkosh, Wisconsin twice and on one occasion, she helped a young team of young Americans with no prior aircraft building experience to assemble a Zenith CH750 aircraft in a record one week.<\/p>\n<h3>Watch\u00a0a video about her below:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Female pilots on the move in Ghana-1.wmv\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/klPXQqA2XoI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/meet-the-20-south-african-teenagers-who-are-building-an-aircraft-to-fly-them-across-africa\" target=\"_blank\">Click the link below to\u00a0read more of\u00a0her story - and also that of the teenage South Africans building an aircraft to fly across the continent!<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"vk-wp-oembed-blog-card-url-template\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/meet-the-20-south-african-teenagers-who-are-building-an-aircraft-to-fly-them-across-africa\">https:\/\/face2faceafrica.com\/article\/meet-the-20-south-african-teenagers-who-are-building-an-aircraft-to-fly-them-across-africa<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a recommended article that tells the story of young Africans - especially females - destroying myths about what their gender can or cannot do. Patricia Mawuli-Porter's story as West Africa's only female flight instructor is truly inspiring! In a 2018 Face2FaceAfrica report, Patricia Mawuli-Porter, West Africa\u2019s only female flight instructor taught girls and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,1375,266,1440],"tags":[3484],"class_list":["post-14447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employeescareer-persons","category-entrepreneurs","category-excel-vb-solutions","category-my-dn-travel-news","category-recommended-websites-articles","tag-meet-patricia-mawuli-porter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":890,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14449,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14447\/revisions\/14449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tayosolagbade.com\/sdnuggets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}