The Indian Air force has a new poster girl now:Â Meghana Shanbogh MR. She recently graduated as a Flying Officer from the Air Force Academy (AFA) in Dundigal at a Combined Graduation Parade. Here are some things to know about her: Meghana is the sixth female fighter pilot and the first from Karnataka to join […]
Flying officer Bhawana Kanth recently became the second woman pilot to fly a fighter aircraft solo, reported ANI. The first woman to achieve the feat is Avani Chaturvedi. Flying officer Bhawana Kanth became the second woman pilot of Indian Air Force to fly solo in a fighter aircraft after she flew in a MiG 21 Bison aircraft from […]
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 […]
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
The first three women fighter pilots will train in Bidar, Karnataka,initially training on the Hawk simulators
History is made as the first batch of women fighter pilots got commissioned into the IAF today.
