All tagged female pilot
Mandy Hickson was the UK’s second female Tornado GR4 pilot. She has the personality one would expect from a woman who had to beat her own path towards a goal she’d been told as a girl was unattainable. She’s lucid, funny and very charismatic. And not somebody you mess with…
When she was a little girl Lauriane wanted to “pilot a pink aeroplane.” Obviously, the Mirage 2000-D that she is piloting 25 years later is not pink, but she accepts that! The only female fighter pilot today on Air Base 133 Nancy-Ochey, this jovial young woman has just qualified as an operational pilot and will be leaving for her first operational mission in the next two months…
Laure is the youngest woman I've profiled so far and also the only one whose life was changed by an eye-test! She's just 22 but behind her chatty, easy-going facade there is a very determined character who knows how to go out and get what she wants. And what she wants is to fly patrol aircraft for the French Navy…
She thought she'd be an army dog-handler. But instead, Lt Alicia* is a French Army helicopter pilot. She flies the Puma, a four-bladed, twin-engine, medium-size utility helicopter. Alicia is only 24 but her maturity, drive and focus are astonishing…
