Steve Harvey Mentoring Weekend, American Airline Pilots and Mechanics Volunteer

Saturday I covered Steve Harvey's mentoring program at American Airlines maintenance base at Alliance airport. About 100 African-American teenagers met pilots and mechanics and toured exhibits by the airline, the Navy and the Air Force. Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/06/19/2277771/american-airlines-comedian-join.html#ixzz0rRQeqP60

Steve Harvey speaks to the 100 young black teenagers, he and other volunteers are mentoring this weekend at American Airlines Maintenance base at Fort Worth Alliance airport, about how if they work hard that they could have a career in the aviation industry Saturday, June 19, 2010.American Airlines mechanics deplane a Boeing 777 and make their entrance into the company's maintenance hanger at American Airlines maintenance base at Fort Worth Alliance airport Saturday, June 19, 2010. Pilots and Mechanics volunteered to help mentor 100 young black teenagers for the Steve Harvey Foundation. Tuskegee Airman Don Elden, left, and historian C.B. Rice, right, volunteered to help mentor 100 young black teenagers at American Airlines maintenance base at Fort Worth Alliance airport Saturday, June 19, 2010. Jerid Flowers, 15, checks out the cockpit of an American Airlines Boeing 777 at American Airlines maintenance base at Fort Worth Alliance airport Saturday, June 19, 2010.

Taje Oliver, 13, listens as American Airlines first officer John Arthur Threadgill talks about how he got started in the aviation industry, flying a Cessna at the age of 14, at American Airlines maintenance base at Fort Worth Alliance airport Saturday, June 19, 2010. Oliver said that after hearing what Threadgill and other maintenance personal had to say, that he now might consider a career as a aviation mechanic or engineer.

Comments

[Douglas Newton]

I was very impressed and very proud to be one of the mechanics that participated. I hope the kids enjoyed it as much as I did. Thank you Mr Harvey.