Girl power: Female pilots saluting during their first solo flight training at an airport in southern Shanxi province. — Xinhua
Beijing: The first 10 female flight students trained by the People’s Liberation Army Ground Force are expected to graduate and join operational units in 2021.
The PLA Ground Force said in a statement that the female trainees were selected from high school graduates across the country in 2017 when the Ground Force began to recruit women for flight training. They are now students at the PLA Ground Force Aviation Institute.
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