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Women fighter pilots not a good financial option: IAF

President Pratibha Patil flying in a Sukhoi-30MKI at the age of 74 shows how empowered women in the country are, but the Indian Air Force believes in a different manner, and maintains that having women fighter pilots is not a good financial option
Air Marshal PK Barbora, Vice Chief of the Air Staff, said on Tuesday [...]

President Patil to enter Guinness Book by flying fighter jet

President Pratibha Devisingh Patil is all set to enter Guinness Book of world records on November 25 by becoming the first lady president to fly a fighter jet.
The President will fly on the fourth-generation twin-seater Sukhoi-30MKI at the Lohegaon airbase in Pune on November 25.
“We all should be proud that it will be a record [...]