SEE PICS! 7 year old Uganda kid shocks everyone with his advanced display of aircraft knowledge

A 7-year-old Ugandan boy has become a sensation in his country with his precocious display of aircraft knowledge and budding flying skills.

Graham Shema has been interviewed on local television and his name is prefixed in newspapers and on social media with "Captain".

Germany's ambassador and the country's transport minister have invited him for meetings. A lover of math and science, the student has flown as a trainee three times on a Cessna 172.

He says he wants to be a pilot and an astronaut, and someday travel to Mars. "My role model is Elon Musk," said the boy, a pilot's white shirt and black slacks hugging his small frame.

"I like Elon Musk because I want to learn with him about space, to go with him in space and also to get a handshake."

When he was 3 years old, a police helicopter flew so low to the ground that it blew off the roof of his grandmother's house on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital Kampala while he was playing outside."It triggered something in his mind," said his mother, travel agent Shamim Mwanaisha, 29.

Last year, she contacted a local aviation academy and Shema began lessons at home on aircraft parts and aviation vocabulary. After five months of coursework, Mwanaisha paid for practical flying lessons for her son.