High-school fly boys launch rockets (and stellar aviation careers): As rocketry-loving students at Wooddale High Schools aviation program in Memphis, Tennessee, Wesley Carter and Darius Hooker trained for private pilots licenses and studied rocket science alongside their traditional coursework. Sometimes called fly boys by their peers, Wesley and Darius received financial support from their community to travel to Washington for the Team America Rocketry Challengewhich dared competitors to propel eggs to a certain altitude and return them to the ground unbroken in less than a minute. Darius is now earning his aircraft mechanics license at the Tennessee Technology Center and plans to attend college before taking a job with FedEx, and Wesley is studying at Middle Tennessee State University.
