 My name is Nicole Jofalan, I'm a PhD candidate in the School of Air and Astro Engineering and this year's Airways Classic Captain. The race is a yearly competition that cross-country races for female pilots from all over the world. There are 55 teams participating usually consisting of 2 to 3 people in small airplanes. So my experience last year was really good. I got to meet a lot of women that I now admire and we did really well. Racing was a lot of fun and we got to learn a lot about ourselves and our airplane and how to fly it efficiently and fast and I'm looking forward to putting those lessons in practice again. The race is different this year, we're not racing from east to west anymore, we're racing from west to east. So we'll be able to complete the race faster because we expect to have some strong tailwinds. Two things we've done different this year is one, we've added a third teammate in the airplane. So this year we have a teammate whose job is basically to do that for us. Help us have fun, help us step aside, have a comfort zone, take videos, share stuff on Facebook so that the public on the ground, people who are not in aviation, they can see how wonderful it is and maybe want to do it later. Second thing we changed is we have now FlightTest.Airplane. So we went up a few times, so me and my co-pilot went up and we just flew at race power settings and race configurations around the block a few times and we collected data so we know how fast we expect to fly at different altitudes and also how fast we can climb and descend depending on where we're facing. So we'll be able to make better decisions when it comes to flying the race legs.