Dubai Airshow
The Superfan: How Roxana Leonte Morphed From Flight Attendant To A Jet Engine ‘Geek’
As a young girl, Roxana Leonte remembers feeling awestruck by the white lines of the contrails that airplanes left in the sky as they soared high above her home in Romania. She marveled at everything from the physics that allowed airplanes to take flight to what it would feel like to be a passenger or even the pilot on a jumbo jet.
Aerospace
The Daring Do: In The Cockpit With GE’s Chief Test Pilot
If you asked most kids in the 1980s, "Are you an Alan Shepard or a Chuck Yeager?," many would pick America’s first astronaut over the test pilot who became the first human to fly faster than the speed of sound. But from the moment Jon Ohman saw "The Right Stuff," the movie that chronicled America’s race into space, he knew: He was a Yeager all the way. “That movie introduced me to the mystique of test pilots,” Ohman says. “It made me realize as a kid that the world of flight test is where I wanted to be.”