Yeah I'm Captain Lauren Cram goodbye
fuse . Uh And I'm a B two pilot .
So my aircraft , it's actually the B
two bomber , its a stealth aircraft .
It's one of the legacy bombers . Um
It's just really interesting because it
doesn't really look like a normal
airplane . So that provides a lot of
interesting um challenges with flight
test um After I graduate from test
pilot school in a couple of months ,
that's when I'll start working tests on
the B two
actually . So after pilot training I
got the C 21 Lear jet and flew that in
europe for about three years . Um Me
and my husband are both pilots so we
got that together and we did
distinguished distinguished visitor um
transports like generals um Senators ,
things like that . We also did medevac
air medical evacuation missions
throughout europe in some parts of
Africa . And then from that airplane we
both applied to be too , got picked up
and about , gosh it was like five years
now ago we both went to White Men and
got spun up on B two S . And then I
found out about test pilot school .
Really just decided to apply to test
pilot school and now I'm here . I
originally knew about test pilot school
because I wanted to be an engineer in
the Air Force . Um and I wanted to come
to TPS as an engineer . The reason that
I got into engineering was I can take
this all the way back to my high school
physics teacher . Um I got really
interested in physics . That was the
first time I've ever done with anything
with physics and I literally googled
college degrees that have to do with
physics . Found aeronautical
engineering . It's like I like
airplanes , co colleges that are good
for aeronautical engineering from the
Air Force Academy , went to the Air
Force Academy , found out about flight
test and engineering . Originally had a
plan on becoming an engineer in the Air
Force , going to TPS that way . Then I
found out that I could be a pilot , I
just never thought of it before applied ,
got in , went to pilot training and
then I went through that path that I
told you about . Yeah , I didn't
originally , if you had asked me like
to probably like sophomore junior of
high school , if I'd be in the military ,
probably would have told , you know ,
um if you had asked me sophomore or
junior year of the academy , if I'd be
a pilot , I probably would have told ,
you know , uh and then even in pilot
training I never thought that I would
be a B two pilot or even get to test
pilot school and you know , two months
graduate and become a test pilot .
Yeah , I'd say like being able to fly
all the different types of airplanes
have been really interesting . Um But
if I can pinpoint one specific thing
was a medevac mission that I did in
europe , when we would go and pick
people up and there was one particular
patient who had , he was not in a great
like physical state and we had to help
them load them onto the airplane and
fly them back to Ramstein to go to the
launch , dual regional medical center .
It's like the largest american hospital
overseas . And that was probably like
one of the most like single rewarding
missions that I've done ,
I would say just don't be too strict in
what you think that you want to do or
what maybe your parents wanted you to
do or even uh being closed minded to
things that you may or may not have
even seen someone that looks like you
do like when I was going through high
school and even college , I never met a
female pilot in the air force or even
just a female pilot in general and I
went and I flew on air lines all the
time , like um my parents were both
like dealing with airline industry type
stuff , but I still never met a female
pilot um but it never , it never
occurred to me that I couldn't do it ,
it was just something that I hadn't , I
just hadn't thought of before , so just
being really open to like all the
different paths that you can possibly
take um and realizing that you , even
if you don't think that you're gonna be ,
eve even if it's not something that
you're necessarily comfortable with uh
if it's pushing you out of your comfort
zone , you can at least try it and see
what happens . Kind of what I did with
the academy . It's what I did with
pilot training , It's what I did with
everything . Since then it's worked out
well so far .