Flying Officer Avani Chaturvedi has created history by becoming the first Indian w�🀅�oman fighter pilot to fly solo.
Chaturvedi flew a🍸 MiG-21 bison in her first training solo sortie, in Jamnagar,🔴 Gujarat.
She is one of the three in the first batch of female pilots, besides Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh, ꦺwho were inducted in Indian Air Force fighter squ✨adron on June 18, 2016.
Speaking to ANI, Air Commodore Prashant Dixi꧋t said, &quo🐼t;It is a unique achievement for Indian Air Force and the country."
Onl🌃y selected countries, such as Britain, the United States, Israel, and Pakistan, have allowed women in the role of fighter pilots.
It was in October 2015 that the Government took the decision to open the fighter stream for women. Meanwhile, combat roles in the Army and the Navy ar🌳e still off-limits for women, due to a combination of operational concerns and logistical constraints.
On December 16, 2017 two women from the second batch to ent🦩er the fighter stream of the India🎃n Air Force were commissioned after graduating from the Air Force Academy, Dundigul.
It was only in 1992 that the armed forces began recruiting women t𓆏o streams, other than the Medical stream.
ANI
