Editing Tuskegee Airmen (section)

====First Lady's flight====
The budding flight program at Tuskegee received a publicity boost when [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] inspected it on 29 March 1941, and flew with African-American chief civilian instructor [[C.&nbsp;Alfred "Chief" Anderson]]. Anderson, who had been flying since 1929 and was responsible for training thousands of rookie pilots, took his prestigious passenger on a half-hour flight in a [[Piper J-3 Cub]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.redtail.org/the-tuskegee-airmen/silver-wings-civil-rights|title=Mrs. Roosevelt Goes for a Ride - Red Tail Squadron|work=Red Tail Squadron|access-date=4 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324113003/http://www.redtail.org/the-tuskegee-airmen/silver-wings-civil-rights/|archive-date=24 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Eleanor Roosevelt and the Tuskegee Airmen |url=https://www.fdrlibrary.org/tuskegee |access-date=2022-05-11 |website=FDR Presidential Library & Museum |language=en-US |archive-date=11 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511144257/https://www.fdrlibrary.org/tuskegee |url-status=live }}</ref> After landing, she cheerfully announced, "Well, you can fly all right."{{sfn|Moye|2010|pp=52–4}}

The subsequent brouhaha over the First Lady's flight had such an impact it is often mistakenly cited as the start of the CPTP at Tuskegee, even though the program was already five months old. Eleanor Roosevelt used her position as a trustee of the [[Julius Rosenwald Fund]] to arrange a loan of $175,000 to help finance the building of [[Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site|Moton Field]].{{sfn|Moye|2010|pp=52–4}}