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guard c: When she was a child, Christine Mau's home in Laguna Hills, Calif., sat beneath the flight path of F-4 jets screeching across the sky from the since-decommissioned El Toro Marine Corps Air Station in Irvine, according to Market Watch. There I was as a five-year-old, looking up at these big, bad F-4s just making noise and just looking awesome, Mau, 44, told Market Watch. This story is part of Ceiling Smashers, a series in which successful women across industries tell Market Watch how they broke down professional barriers. I told my mom, I want to do that someday.' The urge to fly runs in the family. There I was as a five-year-old, looking up at these big, bad F-4s just making noise and just looking awesome. Her father was an Air National Guard C-130 pilot turned Continental Airlines UAL, -3.21% pilot, and her grandfather flew the B-24 bomber in WWII. But Mau didn't see her ambitions crystallize until around sixth grade, when she watched Maverick and Goose fly an F-14 Tomcat in the 1986 film Top Gun. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.