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68 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 11.14 SK Joseph Jewell 17, the Academy at Shawnee High School, senior Ian McShane 17, Ballard High School, senior While most of his peers were worried about getting a driver's license, Joseph was working on his pilot's license as part of his school's aviation magnet. Right after he got his license, he few his mom to Frankfort for dinner as a way of saying thank you. What's the farthest you've ever fown? "It was probably a two hour, 20 minute fight. It was 150 nautical miles from Clark County Regional Airport to Columbus, Indiana, then over to Bloomington, then over to Clark County." Do you hope to do this as a career? "I want to fy for UPS one day." Do you know what you're doing after high school? "I want to get into Stanford or Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and continue my aviation career." Is there anywhere you'd like to fy to? "I'd like to visit a bunch of different countries — places like Australia, Brazil, China. Just to see their culture." What are some skills you have to have to be a pilot? "You have to have good vision. You have to trust the instruments on the inside of the plane. You can't focus on how you feel. You might feel like you're turning, but the plane is actually fying straight." Ian began his road and cyclocross (off-road) racing career at age 10. He has won enough awards since then to land spots on the USA Junior National and Vertex Cycling teams in Europe. After high school, Ian's headed to Marian University in Indianapolis on a cycling scholarship. What kind of training do you do? "We go to Florida sometimes and we'll do 100 miles every day for a week." What's a memorable race? "When I went with Team USA, we did a classic called Paris-Roubaix. It's a cobblestone race where there's 16 sections of cobbles. I ended up actually crashing and breaking my elbow, which was not fun. I was a little sad I didn't get to fnish the race, but I came back and fnished the season." Is there anything that scares you about cycling? "Not really. Sometimes when you get those crazy-fast downhills that are 65 miles per hour it gets a little sketchy and you try not to have speed wobbles. I get this thing where I start going over 50 and my left ankle starts shaking uncontrollably."