Tuskegee Airmen

Kimberly Anyadike always wanted to fly. As a child, she would spread her arms, take a bounce off the bed and try to catch air. This month, after three years of training, the 15-year-old will try to set a world record by becoming the youngest black female to pilot an airplane across the country. The Inglewood resident and student of Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum, which provides scholarships and after-school programs to aspiring aviators and at-risk youth in exchange for community service hours, will be joined in the cockpit by Tuskegee Airman Levi Thornhill.

Laura Sturza BURBANK -- Members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the groundbreaking, all-black, World War II aviation fighting unit, will be at the eighth annual Burbank Militaria and Aviation Show on Saturday. Representing the unit will be Warrant Officer Ted Davidson, Lt. Roger Terry, Sgt. Edward Brantley, Sgt. Robert Taylor and Lt. Sam Hughes, who will be selling posters of the airmen and their planes, videotapes of interviews with the airmen and original photographs of the 99th Squadron.

Kimberly Anyadike always wanted to fly. As a child, she would spread her arms, take a bounce off the bed and try to catch air. This month, after three years of training, the 15-year-old will try to set a world record by becoming the youngest black female to pilot an airplane across the country. The Inglewood resident and student of Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum, which provides scholarships and after-school programs to aspiring aviators and at-risk youth in exchange for community service hours, will be joined in the cockpit by Tuskegee Airman Levi Thornhill.

Laura Sturza BURBANK -- Members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the groundbreaking, all-black, World War II aviation fighting unit, will be at the eighth annual Burbank Militaria and Aviation Show on Saturday. Representing the unit will be Warrant Officer Ted Davidson, Lt. Roger Terry, Sgt. Edward Brantley, Sgt. Robert Taylor and Lt. Sam Hughes, who will be selling posters of the airmen and their planes, videotapes of interviews with the airmen and original photographs of the 99th Squadron.