
War in the air: everything you wanted to know
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The First Air Combat
The first air combat was not dog fights, but black witches of the soviet frontal aviation in 19 forty three, forty four. It isn't really until you get much later, until even into the 19 nineties, that you get women learning to fly an flying fast jets. In britain, for example, it's a flying officer. Joe slater is, i think, the first operationally qualified lady to fly with six, one, seven te dambusters in tornadoes. Weve got female pilotsa, but there's no bar to female tjoining the military in most countries in the world. But predominantly,. it's a male business.
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