Growing up, Naperville resident Adeline O’Neill loved going to the airport, taking in all the hustle and bustle, and watching planes take off, but one thing regularly stood out: she rarely saw any female pilots.
O’Neill’s interest in planes grew, but she could never see herself in the cockpit, not until her junior year of high school at Naperville Central.
“When I was applying for colleges, where I wanted to go and what I wanted to major in, aviation kept coming back to me. And that was something that I kept thinking about,” she said…