Father and daughter duo create history by flying advanced fighter jet trainers

父女二人驾驶先进战机教练机，创造历史

NEW DELHI: Father-son fighter pilots in the IAF have generated sonic booms before. But this time, a father-daughter duo have torn into the skies in advanced fighter jet trainers to carve a place for themselves in the country’s military aviation history.

新德里：印度空军的父子战机飞行员以前引起过轰动。但这一次，一对父女驾驶先进战机教练机飞上了天空，在印度的军事航空史上留下了自己的一席之地。

Air Commodore Sanjay Sharma, a veteran fighter pilot currently posted at the IAF headquarters, and his daughter Flying Officer Ananya Sharma (24), who is undergoing `transitional’ fighter training after being commissioned last December, recently flew in the same formation of Hawk-132 planes at the Bidar airbase.

空军准将桑杰·沙玛是一名资深战斗机飞行员，目前驻扎在印度空军总部。

他的女儿、24岁的飞行军官安娜娅·沙玛去年12月服役后正在接受“过渡”战斗机训练，最近在比达尔空军基地驾驶鹰-132编队飞行。

"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. They were more than just father and daughter. They were comrades, who had full faith in each other as fellow wingmen," an officer said on Tuesday.

“此前，印度空军从未出现过父女在同一战斗机编队执行任务的情况。他们不仅仅是父女，而且是战友，对彼此充满信心，”一名军官周二表示。

Air Commodore Sharma is obviously bursting with pride. "Ananya always used to say `Papa, I want to be a fighter pilot like you’. The biggest, proudest day in my life was when we flew in the Hawk aircraft in the same formation at Bidar on May 30," he says.

空军准将桑杰·沙玛显然非常自豪。他说：“安娜娅总是说‘爸爸，我想成为像你一样的战斗机飞行员’。

5月30日，我们在比达尔空军基地驾驶鹰式机编队飞行，这是我生命中最重要、最自豪的一天。”

Flying Officer Ananya, in turn, adds, "As a child, I would often ask my father why there were no women fighter pilots. He would tell me in his characteristic style `Don’t worry, you will be one’."

中尉安娜娅补充说：“小时候，我经常问我父亲，为什么没有女战斗机飞行员。他会用他特有的方式告诉我‘别担心，你会成为其中一员的’。”

As luck would have it, the combat exclusion policy for women in the Indian armed forces was shattered when the IAF inducted three of them as fighter pilots in 2016. Since then, 15 women have been commissioned into the fighter stream of the IAF, with some now already flying supersonic jets like MiG-21s, Sukhoi-30MKIs and even the spanking new Rafales.

幸运的是，2016年印度空军引入三名女性战斗机飞行员，打破了印度武装部队对女性的排斥政策。从那时起，印度空军已经有15名女性服役，其中一些已经在驾驶超音速战机，比如米格-21、苏霍伊- 30mkis，甚至是全新的阵风战机。

以下是印度时报读者的评论：译者：Jessica.Wu

Inspiring, congratulations to both.

鼓舞人心，恭喜两位。

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Congratulations to the proud father and Ananya. You are our real heroes and role models.,May god bless you with all the happiness in the life.

祝贺这对父女。你们是我们真正的英雄和榜样。愿神保佑你们一生幸福快乐。

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Great. Salute.

太棒了，致敬！

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Congratulations

恭喜

Nkmm

Government should keep on creating such jobs for women and am confident you will have more duos in future which will make India proud.

政府应该继续为女性创造这样的就业机会，我相信未来会有更多女性加入，让印度感到自豪。

Proud Indian

its happiest moment for father to fly with his daughter in same fighter jet for Airforce this is a very rare occasion you can see that salute both of you adoring the life for the nations. Salute the brave heart.

父女驾驶战斗机编队飞行，这是最幸福的时刻，也是罕见的。向你们致敬，向勇敢的心致敬。

Ullatt Subhas

Proud father and daughter in the IAF.

印度空军一对自豪的父女！

Aditya Bhuyan

Proud of such families those exst in India who take pride in serving the nation

这样的家庭为服务国家而自豪，我们也为他们感到自豪

Indian Guy

WOW, congrats to both!!!

哇，祝贺他们

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nice..very nice

非常棒

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Upper caste

高种姓

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BRAVO! CONGRATULATIONS to father- daughter duo. A proud moment indeed!

致敬

恭喜父女二人。

这真是一个值得骄傲的时刻

Rahul K

Good

真棒！

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Congratulations have a great Flight Jai Hind

祝贺飞行顺利，印度必胜

User Majumdar

This may make good publicity

这可能会起到很好的宣传效果。

Jagdish Madan

Proud of the father - daughter fighter pilots duo!

骄傲的战机飞行员父女二人组

Crazy Genius

Proud of father-daughter pilots! Jai Hind!

为这对父女飞行员感到骄傲

印度必胜

Crazy Genius

Proud of our Armed Forces! Best Wishes to Father-daughter buddhijeevis pilots!!! Jai Hind!

为我们的军队感到骄傲

祝福这对飞行员父女

印度必胜！

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Awesome feeling proud for both of you.

真为你们俩感到骄傲。

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Great achievement and salute to all 15 women pilots and a special one to the father and daughter team!

伟大的成就，向所有15名女飞行员致敬，特别向这对父女组合致敬

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Proud moments for the family

这个家庭的骄傲时刻

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great..and congrats to both dad and daughter.

太棒了，祝贺这对父女！

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Wow … glad moment for both of you.

哇，俩人都很高兴。

igyasu

Great moment for the forces.

军队也自豪！

PappuSwami

Proud Father!

自豪的父亲!

Anil

This is a real pride of Hindustan. Jai Bharat.

他们是印度斯坦真正的骄傲。印度必胜！