She’d never met a pilot who looked like her. At 50, she became one anyway.

TAMPA — Carole Hopson’s alarm went off at 5 a.m. She rose from her airport hotel bed, showered and made some coffee in the room. Then it was time to go over her flight plan. There would be some turbulence on the 9 a.m. short haul to Newark — nothing severe, but she’d have to tell the flight crew to...

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