Angelina Jolie learn to fly because of her son Maddox. This is because her son loves watching planes in the sky and she promise she will learn to fly on his second birthday.
She told Vanity Fair: "When Maddox was one-and-a-half, we used to go to the airfield, have lunch and watch the planes. And it dawned on me: I could fly. So I promised him I would fly by his second birthday."
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