While her peers at Jefferson City High School were getting their driver's licenses, Anastasia Crenshaw was aiming higher.
Last month, the JCHS junior became the youngest licensed pilot in Missouri - a fleeting status she may have already lost. (Whenever someone obtains a license on or near his or her 17th birthday - the legal age to get a pilot's license - he or she briefly inherits the status.)
Still, being a girl pilot is uncommon in a hobby and profession dominated by men. But Crenshaw doesn't let herself be constrained by conventions, and she shoots for ....