ഇന്ത്യൻ വ്യോമസേനയുടെ ചരിത്രത്തിൽ ആദ്യമായി ഒരുമിച്ച് വിമാനം പറത്തി അച്ഛനും മകളും | Father-daughter create history by flying fighter jet together

“There has not been any previous instance in the IAF where a father and his daughter were part of the same fighter formation for a mission. It was the mission where Air Cmde Sanjay and Fg Offr Ananya were more than just father and daughter. They were comrades, who had full faith in each other as fellow wingmen would,” the IAF said.

ഇന്ത്യൻ വ്യോമസേനയുടെ ചരിത്രത്തിൽ ആദ്യമായി ഒരുമിച്ച് വിമാനം പറത്തി അച്ഛനും മകളും- എയർ കമ്മഡോർ സഞ്ജയ് ശർമ്മ മകൾ ഫ്ലൈയിംഗ് ഓഫീസർ അനന്യ ശർമ്മ എന്നിവരാണ് ഈ ചരിത്രനേട്ടം സ്വന്തമാക്കിയത്.
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Fighter pilots, Air Commodore Sanjay Sharma and Flying Officer Ananya Sharma of the Indian Air Force (IAF) have created history by becoming the first father-daughter pair flying in a formation of British-origin Hawk-132 advanced jet trainers (AJTs) at the Bidar airbase in Karnataka.

“Air Cmde Sanjay & Fg Offr Ananya were more than just father & daughter….they were comrades who had full faith in each other as fellow wingmen would” the IAF said

Air Commodore Sanjay Sharma was commissioned in the fighter stream of the IAF in 1989 and has had an extensive experience of fighter operations, having commanded a Mig-21 Sqn as well as a frontline fighter station.

Talking of the bond and bonhomie a fighter pilot has with one’s wingman, aptly depicted in the Hollywood superhit ‘Top Gun’, the officer said as young Ananya was growing up, she watched her father, a fighter pilot, nurture this very bond with his fellow squadron pilots.

Having virtually grown up in the IAF, there was absolutely no other profession that she could imagine being a part of, he elaborated, stating that as the first women fighter pilots of the IAF entered service in 2016, Ananya saw that her lifelong dream could now take off.

“Flying Officer Sharma is currently undergoing her training before she graduates onto faster and more superior fighter aircraft of the IAF. There has not been any previous instance in the IAF, where a father and his daughter were part of the same fighter formation for a mission,” the IAF officer said.

Flying Officer Ananya a B.Tech  graduate in Electronics and Communication, was selected for training for the flying branch of IAF and was commissioned as a fighter pilot in December 2021.