Nobody Knows This One, Very Cool Fact About Angelina Jolie

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Published on Tuesday, 24 April 2018 06:25

Written by Marie Claire

            Angelina Jolie is here to make you look bad: not only is the mother-of-six a committed human rights activist (in addition to her acting and directing), she’s also, as it turns out, a fully licensed pilot.The world gets an impressive reminder of Jolie’s flying capabilities in the new David Attenborough doco The Queen’s Green Planet. Footage shows Jolie co-piloting a light plane over the Namibian desert (Jolie has recently partnered with the Namibian government to create a nursery that will replace dying trees in the area). Part of a birthday present for her son Maddox.“When Maddox was one and a half, we used to go to the airfield, have lunch and watch the planes,” she said. “And it dawned on me: I could fly. So I promised him I would fly by his second birthday.”

 source : Marie Claire