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After creating history as India’s first female fighter pilot, Avani Chaturvedi says a machine doesn’t have a gender bias
In February, Avani created history by flying a MiG-21 bison in her first training solo sortie, in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Avani Chaturvedi, the first ever Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft solo, said that an aircraft knows no gender boundaries.
“The best thing to be in the aviation sector is when you fly an aircraft which is a machine, it does not know whether the person handling it is a male or female. it will behave in a similar way. Be it a boy or a girl they have to be equally competent and professional to fly an aircraft,”