Nick Booker, a seventh-grader at Richmond Preparatory Christian Academy’s Douglass School, takes a selfie with aviator Barrington Irving, left, following Mr. Irving’s talk Wednesday to several hundred students at the Science Museum of Virginia. Also in the selfie is Elbert Brinson, dean of the Douglass School.
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Historic aviator inspires others
Jamaica native Barrington Irving moved to Miami with his family when he was 6, excelled on the gridiron and as a student and had several football scholarship offers when his career ambitions suddenly changed from football to flying.
