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06-23-2016, 09:41 AM
Thai Air Force's first female pilots begin training
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The Royal Thai Air Force's first female pilots made history on Wednesday, starting their training in an altitude chamber.
The five women are the Air Force's first female recruits in its over 100-year history, as one of Asia's earliest established air forces in 1913.
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The women were an**unced (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/1008305/air-force-takes-its-first-women-pilot-trainees) earlier this month: two of them, Sireethorn Lawansatian and Chonnisa Supawannapong, are civilians. The other three — Karncha**k Janyarak, Peerasri Jalpaisarn and Chanakarn Sornjarn — are ******rs in the Air Force.
The two civilians have obtained commercial pilot licences already, and are required to undergo a month of military training, after which they will receive the rank of pilot ******r, said The Bangkok Post. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/23/thai-first-female-pilots/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The Royal Thai Air Force's first female pilots made history on Wednesday, starting their training in an altitude chamber.
The five women are the Air Force's first female recruits in its over 100-year history, as one of Asia's earliest established air forces in 1913.
SEE ALSO: Female pilots who flew during WWII can **w be buried at Arlington (http://mashable.com/2016/05/21/wwii-female-pilots-arlington/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The women were an**unced (http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/security/1008305/air-force-takes-its-first-women-pilot-trainees) earlier this month: two of them, Sireethorn Lawansatian and Chonnisa Supawannapong, are civilians. The other three — Karncha**k Janyarak, Peerasri Jalpaisarn and Chanakarn Sornjarn — are ******rs in the Air Force.
The two civilians have obtained commercial pilot licences already, and are required to undergo a month of military training, after which they will receive the rank of pilot ******r, said The Bangkok Post. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/06/23/thai-first-female-pilots/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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