Daily Mirror - Asian-Mideast women break combat flying gender barriers
The Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) made headlines recently by commissioning two women pilots to fly military aircraft – a first in the island. The SLAF was the country’s first service arm to induct women into its ranks when in 1972 it recruited women into its volunteer force. It took almost another half a century before it allowed women to fly.In the meantime, several countries in the Asia-Mideast region are ahead of us in this regard. While the SLAF’s pioneer women pilots are flying transport planes, India, Pakistan, China, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, the United Arab Emi...
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