By Lakshmi Gandhi

It was while researching for a story more than a decade ago that Ed Moy first learned about pilot Katherine Sui Fun Cheung, one of the first Chinese pilots in the United States.

“I was a journalist and I wrote a magazine article and I came across her name,” Moy told NBC News. “I knew a little about these Chinese-American pilots and then in 2012, the East West Players did a play about Katherine called ‘Taking Flight.’ I thought, ‘This is fun. I should do something about her.’’

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