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RFT 240: Shades of Blue President Captain Willie Daniels
FromReady For Takeoff - Turn Your Aviation Passion Into A Career
RFT 240: Shades of Blue President Captain Willie Daniels
FromReady For Takeoff - Turn Your Aviation Passion Into A Career
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Length:
62 minutes
Released:
Nov 19, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
Willie Daniels became fascinated with aviation from an early age, and enrolled in Mount san Antonio College, majoring in Aviation, and then completed his degree at Metropolitan State College of Denver (now Metropolitan State University of Denver) in the Aviation Department. His first airline job was as a flight attendant with United Airlines. In the meantime, he built his flying time and finally landed a position as a pilot with United. He advanced through the ranks and spent 19 years on the B747 before the plane was retired. He is currently a B777 Captain flying international routes. After reading some sobering news stories, he founded Shades of Blue to foster Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education in the minority community. He is now the President of Shades of Blue. Here is the website for Shades of Blue, a 501(C)3 organization.
Released:
Nov 19, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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