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A team of Western Michigan University aviation students and recent alumni is flying high after winning a cross-country race involving 85 teams of female aviators. Emma Hughes, Emily Hause, Regine Rose Acosta and Amanda Charlton took first place in the inaugural Air Race Classic (ARC) Air Derby.

"To see that our team's hard work this year not only allowed us to grow closer as teammates and to have fun participating in the Derby but to bring back to Western the title ... is an indescribable feeling. It is a great honor and a memory that I will forever cherish," says Hughes, a senior from Kiel, Wisconsin, studying aviation flight science and aviation maintenance technology.

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