Meet First Woman Flight Engineer:--Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal.
Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal has been selected for the prestigious Flight Engineers’ course. She successfully has completed the course at 112 Helicopter Unit, Air Force Station, Yelahanka and thus created history by becoming the first Indian Woman Flight Engineer. Commissioned on 05 Jan 15 in the engineering branch of the IAF, she has served as Chief of firing team and battery commander in a frontline Surface to Air Missile squadron, before being selected for the prestigious Flight Engineers’ Course. She successfully completed the course and earned her Flight Engineer’s wing on 15 Feb 19. Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal, hails from Chandigarh and has completed her Bachelor of Engineering degree from Punjab University. During the course of six months of grueling training, she trained shoulder to shoulder with her male counterparts, and displayed unflinching commitment, dedication and perseverance. The only daughter of Mr DK Jaiswal and Mrs Anita Jaiswal, Hina describes her achievement as a “dream come true”. Since childhood, she had aspired to done the soldier’s uniform and take on the skies as an aviator. Finally, her dreams have manifested into reality after successfully graduating from the alma mater of Heli-lift.


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