India
oi-Vicky Nanjappa
New Delhi, Sep 24: Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh will formally join the 17 Golden Arrows Squadron of the Rafales at the Ambala airbase after she finishes her conversion training.
She is getting ready to fly the Rafale after becoming fully operational on the MiG-21 Bison.
The conversion training is mandatory when a combat pilot switches from one fighter to another.
Flt Lt Singh, who studied at the Banaras Hindu University was among the second batch of women fighter pilots who were commissioned in 2017. The IAF has 10 women fighter pilots, who have been trained to fly supersonic jets.
Flt Lt Singh was earlier deployed at a forward fighter base in Rajasthan….