Carole Hopson: The Inspiring Journey of a Late-Blooming Pilot

Flying under the radar isn’t an option for Carole Hopson. 

As a Boeing 737 Captain for United Airlines, based mere minutes outside of New York City, the 62-year-old African American pilot — one of the eldest black female aviators in the tristate — is as striking as the roughly 100,000-pound plane she reins.

And in the age of anti-aging, a time fraught with Botox-obsessed teenagers avoiding wrinkles, and billionaire biohackers syphoning Gen Z blood for fear of getting older, Hopson’s gone full-throttle in pursuit of her sky-high dreams despite the year on her birth certificate, landing the gig with United on November 6, 2018, at age 58.