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Sarla Thukral, one of the first Indian women to receive her pilot's license, India, 1930s (lemmy.world)

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarla_Thukral

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

According to the (horribly) written article she never received a pilot's license. She was just one of the first women to "fly aircraft".

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Born in 1914, she earned an aviation pilot license in 1936 at the age of 21 and flew a Gypsy Moth solo. After obtaining the initial license, she persevered and completed one thousand hours of flying in the aircraft owned by the Lahore Flying Club.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

My bad, I skipped right to the career subsection where it says she didn't obtain a commercial license.

Sarla abandoned her plans to become a commercial pilot, returning to Lahore and attending the Mayo School of Art where she trained in the Bengal school of painting, obtaining a diploma in fine arts.