First female pilot to fly for the United Arab Emirates and part of the ISIS strikes. Apparently she led the pilots in combat. A good forward step for women in the UAE.
Mansouri joined the Emerati Air Force in 2007, soon after the country began allowing women to join. According to an interview with Deraa Al Watan magazine last year, before she was allowed to join up, Mansouri “bided her time by spending several years working for General Command before becoming the first woman to join the airforce when the academy finally opened its doors to female recruits.” In the interview she said that competing with her male counterparts was never an issue, instead saying she “focused on competing with herself to improve her skills.”
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