{UAH} Meet the 8-years-old Ugandan genius who started learning how to fly a plane at age 7
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Africa is, without any iota of doubt, the home of geniuses. The continent is not only blessed with vast mineral wealth, but also with exceptional talents and geniuses whose extraordinary display of brilliance in science and technology has seen a rise in the number of tech startups in the continent.
December 4, 2020, a young sensation Ugandan boy who made headlines in his home country of Uganda was seen in a video with his precocious display of aircraft knowledge, aviation skills and budding flying skills. The young genius identified as Graham Shema, nicknamed 'Captain' is a lover of mathematics and science. Graham Shema has already flown Cessna 172 aircraft three times as a trainee between January and March.
Graham Shema at Entebbe International Airport, Uganda. Image credit: Reuters Graham Shema's role model is Tesla and Space X CEO and billionaire Elon Musk. He says his dream is to be a pilot and an astronaut, and someday travel to Mars.
"My role model is Elon Musk. I like Elon Musk because I want to learn with him about space, to go with him in space and also to get a handshake."
Graham Shema
Graham Shema piloting the Cessna 172 aircraft Several local television stations in Uganda granted him an interview and had the opportunity to be invited for meetings by Germany's ambassador and the country's transport minister.
At Uganda's Entebbe International Airport, Shema's instructor asked him to explain how the engines worked on a Bombardier CRJ9000 plane parked on the tarmac, the brilliant Shema replied flawlessly: "The inlet tubes suck in the air and inject it into the compressor, the compressor squeezes it with the fans, after squeezing it with the fans, it becomes hot".
According to Reuters, Graham's passion for flying was triggered when a police helicopter flew so low to the ground that it blew off the roof of his grandmother's house.
The incident took place on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital Kampala in 2019 while he was playing outside and according to his mother Shamim Mwanaisha, 30, a travel agent, it 'triggered something in his mind.'
Graham Shema Shema's mother said it was at that time her son started bombarding her with questions about how planes work. Young and curious Shema stressed her mother with questions every day that she had to contact a local aviation academy for Shema to began lessons at home on aircraft parts and aviation vocabulary
Five months later Graham was thrilled to start flying lessons.
"I felt like a bird flying up," he said of his first flight.
In 2021, he has flown three times between January and March as a co-pilot. Since then he hasn't fly due to the pandemic. Graham Shema has been focusing on aviation theory and immersing himself in videos about aviation and space exploration on his virtual reality viewer since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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