India's first female fast jet pilot

[Lonewolf_50]

Originally Posted by pr00ne

"waste of a stunningly attractive man"

You won't see that posted any time soon since I am still breathing.


Hat, coat, door ...

[pr00ne]

Lonewolf 50,

Arf!

[Doctor Cruces]

Originally Posted by spectre150

Good old Auntie Beeb. The Bison was a 1950s Soviet bomber (well, Bison was the NATO codename for it, with 'b' for bomber being a bit of a clue as opposed to 'f' for fighter as in "Fishbed").

Edited to add - if Bison is the Indian Air Force name for the MiG-21, I stand corrected

I think it's probably Mig 21 BIS which I think (IIRC) Improved or Modified or somesuch thing.

[Fareastdriver]

Arriving in Bombay during exercise Shiksha, tanking Javelins out to India in 1963, we were given a locker room to put our kit in. I looked at the top of my locker and there was a book written in Russian. One of our AEOs was fluent in Russian so I gave it to him. He looked at it, suggested it was paperwork to do with the Mig 21 and put it in his pocket.

Tactfully I 'forgot' all about it.

[tartare]

Originally Posted by CoodaShooda

Australia?s first female fighter pilots graduate | Australian Aviation

Our inspirational Defence Minister murmured it on social media back in December. Didn't get much media beyond the Oz and Australian Aviation. Possibly because they haven't released their names for security reasons.

Met a female Hawk driver at Avalon and had a good yarn to her.
She was due to be streamed onto bigger, faster, pointier things.
Nice young gal... impressive.
And to answer another poster 0- why did I start the thread?
Cos I was in India - Pune - a year ago, watching MiGs and Sukhois tooling around - and was speaking to a relative - retired AVM - who said there was a lot of opposition for women wanting to fly fast jets.
So this struck me as a particularly significant achievement.
Even moreso because having sat in a MiG 21 cockpit - that's one very old and cramped office, on top of a big ugly beast that will bite you as soon as look at you...

EDIT - Cooda - that girl on the right - the blonde one - was the one I spoke to at Avalon.
So - Hornets.
Well done.

[CoodaShooda]

Tartare
She was on my son's course and should have graduated in December 2016.
Unfortunately, she got held back by minor medical issue.
An extremely capable young lady.