"The first time I was asked to take the plane alone, I felt scared at that time. Don't know if I will be able to take it alone or not? But when I took off for the first time, all the fear come out, the world looked very small."
Women are writing new history by breaking all taboo. The Indian Army is also witnessing the strong form of women. Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh is going to become the first female pilot of Rafale in one of the world's best-class combat aircraft. As Rafale replaces the MiG-21 'Bison' in the Indian Air Force fleet, Shivangi will enter the role. What a coincidence that in December last year, another woman named Shivangi became the first woman pilot of the Indian Navy. She hails from Muzaffarpur in Bihar.
However, Flight Lt Shivangi Singh, based in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, will make a formal entry into the 17 'Gaulden Arrows' squadron at the Ambala base of the Air Force as soon as he completes 'conversion training'. A pilot needs to take 'conversion training' to switch from one fighter jet to another fighter jet. However, flying the Rafale for Shivangi, which has flown the MiG-21S, will not be a challenging task as the MiG is the world's fastest landing and take-off speed with a speed of 340 km per km.
Flight Lieutenant Avni Chaturvedi, Flight Lieutenant Bhawana Kant and Flight Lieutenant Mohana Singh were among the first batch of female pilots to fly in the Indian Air Force as fighter jets. He was given its basic training in June 2016. It was these women who created a new history defying the policy of keeping women out of the armed forces' combat operations.
Shivangi's father Kameshwar Singh works as Travels. He told that in July 2016, Shivangi qualified the Common Aptitude Test in Mysore. It was from here that he started airforce training. He specializes in flying aircraft.
