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“She jumped into new adventures with everything she had,” Nadine remembered. “She was tenacious that way. If you were with her and you wanted her to stay longer, she’d say that she simply had something to do, without bragging about what it was, even if it was something major like climbing a mountain. That summer in college she took one visit to the EAA convention, thought it was cool, and invested her entire being in it. Not standing from a distance watching others fly. She needed to do it herself. She needed to fly.”

Learning to fly consumed the rest of Chris’s summer days, and she earned her pilot’s license by college graduation. For Mother’s Day, she took Joyce up in a rented plane so she could show her how it all looked from the air: circling Lake Winnebago, the Fox River, and the family home. Chris Feld was already learning to love the view from the top.

After graduating from college in 1991 with an electrical engineering degree, Chris made Atlanta home, where she’d gotten a job at Lockheed Aeronautical Systems. Entering this world as one of the few women in the room wasn’t new to her; she’d experienced it at home in Appleton and in her undergraduate classes in Milwaukee. At Lockheed, her talent for leadership was noticed, and she was assigned to guide a team designing software for a lighted control display for the C-130J Super Hercules, a military cargo plane.