All tagged Air Force Training Academy
When she was a little girl Lauriane wanted to “pilot a pink aeroplane.” Obviously, the Mirage 2000-D that she is piloting 25 years later is not pink, but she accepts that! The only female fighter pilot today on Air Base 133 Nancy-Ochey, this jovial young woman has just qualified as an operational pilot and will be leaving for her first operational mission in the next two months…
Anaïs knows that sometime in 2021, although the exact date remains to be determined, she will move up a rank from Squadron Leader to Wing Commander. This charming young woman also knows that she will be leaving the greyness of Air Base 105 in Evreux, 100 kms west-north-west of Paris, to take a command post under the sunnier skies of Martinique where she will be director of the State Aeronautics Centre. “At the civilian airport there is a military zone that I’ll be responsible for,” she tells me, adding enthusiastically that the advantage of working in the armed forces is “that you can have several careers in one”…
