Some websites on retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, and the World War II-era WASPs have been pulled offline.
On just her second sortie in April 1942, she proved her worth, downing a Luftwaffe Junkers Ju 88 bomber and a Messerschmitt Bf109 fighter, thus becoming the first female pilot to shoot down an ...
One such landmark was set last year when Indian Air Force, for the first time, inducted female fighter pilots. Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh scripted history by becoming the ...
has achieved yet another remarkable first for women in India's armed forces, becoming the first woman fighter pilot to fly the indigenously built state-of-the-art Tejas fighter jet. Mohana ...
In 2023, Avani reached another remarkable milestone by becoming India's first female pilot to fly the Sukhoi fighter jet. Serving as squadron leader, she participated in a 16-day mega air combat ...
she had already trained forty-five pilots! “Partly out of need, partly out of a sense of Communist egalitarianism, the Soviet Air Force in World War II was the only major arm to allow women to f ...