Sandra Bookman has more on what it is and why we celebrate it. Eagle Flight is giving people like us in these local communities an opportunity to fly an airplane and get exposure, Muriithi said
And that will hopefully help close a gap in the aviation industry. According to Sisters of the Skies an organization of professional Black female pilots less than 1% of pilots in the US are Black women. For us to be in 2021, it is kind of a shock, said Monique Grayson, a member of the organization and a first officer with Delta Airlines.
Her interest in planes took off when she was 12 years old, but she hit some financial turbulence in flight school.
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The US Air Force s Air Education and Training Command announced interim changes to height standards for career enlisted aviators.
The changes will make those positions available to more recruits entering the enlisted ranks, particularly women, without needing a waiver.
In keeping with their efforts to improve branch-wide diversity, the US Air Force (USAF) Air Education and Training Command (AETC) announced interim changes to their dated height standards for Career Enlisted Aviators (CEAs).
The updates come as the result of preliminary information gathered from an ongoing anthropometric study that the Air Force began last year.
All-women crew fly Alliance Air maiden Delhi-Bareilly flight on International Women’s Day
Alliance Air, which is a subsidiary of Air India was flying Union Minister and MP from Bareilly Santosh Gangwar to his home constituency
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To mark the inauguration of a domestic airline, which coincided with International Women’s Day, an all-woman crew flew from Delhi to Bareilly with Union Minister and MP from Bareilly Santosh Gangwar on board, on March 8.
According to The New Indian Express, the maiden flight of Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India was flagged off by Union Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, and was manned by Captain Poonam Yadav.
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