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Beating All Odds, Priya Sharma Becomes India's 7th Woman Fighter Pilot & Makes Us Proud


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Soaring high up in the sky, maneuvering a loaded, uber-hefty aircraft under your able hands, and zooming around the sky fighting enemy planes in the sky, is a dream many young boys come to live for. However, the same cannot be said for young girls, who usually do not even consider being fighter pilots on most perfect days.

Beating All Odds, Priya Sharma Becomes India's 7th Woman Fighter Pilot & Makes Us Proud© TOI

But this scenario might be changing real soon because young women are now constantly proving that sky is indeed the limit when it comes to dreaming big, and living it too. One such stellar example is that of Priya Sharma from Rajasthan, who decided to go all out and turn her dream into a reality by donning that hat of India's 7th woman fighter pilot, in the otherwise male dominated industry.

Beating All Odds, Priya Sharma Becomes India's 7th Woman Fighter Pilot & Makes Us Proud© TOI

Not just that, Priya has now also become the 3rd woman fighter pilot to come out of the western state. As per reports, out of the 139 cadets that graduated from the Indian Air Force academy in Dundigul, only 35 were fighter pilots and Priya happened to be the only woman amongst the lot!

It was her father's posting at the Air Force station in Karnataka that first sowed the seed of becoming a fighter, and well there was no going back on it with her graduation now!

Beating All Odds, Priya Sharma Becomes India's 7th Woman Fighter Pilot & Makes Us Proud© BCCL

This is a proud moment for our nation, but more so for the young girls and women, who had so far stuck to more “regular” career choices in this field. 

Beating All Odds, Priya Sharma Becomes India's 7th Woman Fighter Pilot & Makes Us Proud© Panchayat Times

Earlier with Avani Chaturvedi who made history by flying solo on a fighter jet, and now with Priya joining the league of female fighter pilots in the country, we can only wish them greater successes in the future.

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