Things are changing. And, changing for good! India’s first set of women fighter pilots were commissioned in June this year at the prestigious Airforce Academy in Dundigal, Hyderabad. Now the second batch of women fighter pilots has been summoned there and will soon pass out during the Combined Graduate Parade. The event is scheduled to be held on […]

23-year-old Rucha Surendra Sial had opted for an MNC job. But the news of three women pilots being inducted into the Indian Air Force’s fighter squadron last year changed her life. Being always fascinated with the defence services, Rucha decided to opt out of the corporate world and do something meaningful for the nation. So she did what she always wanted to do — take up a career in the force.

If reports are to be believed, not a single lady cadet from the IAF’s first batch of women fighter pilots has volunteered to join the fighter aircraft stream

History is made as the first batch of women fighter pilots got commissioned into the IAF today.