All hail First Granny !!!
President Pratibha Patil, the youthful 74-year-old head of state of India, made history earlier this week by flying a Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter jet for an unbelievable 40 minute sortie from the Indian Air Force base at Pune, India. By doing this she made history by being a woman, as well as the oldest individual, to have done this feat, which has possibly not been done in the World ever before…
She was on a solidarity tour of the Indian Forces a couple of days before one full year of the Mumbai Terror attacks. In a move much appreciated by the Indian media, our First Granny had to give a tiresome physical test, before getting in the jump-suit for the sortie…
President Patil also pitched hard for women pilots in the defense forces in the press conference afterward, which in India is still a mostly male dominated affair.
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