“When you look down at the wings on your chest, I want you to realize that you will never fly on an aircraft again and not be part of the aircrew. “This morning you (Airmen) are joining a family over 13,000 aviators,” said Chief Master Sgt. The flight engineer career field dates back to World War II, when experienced mechanics and maintenance personnel flew aboard larger aircraft, including the Enola Gay and Bockscar B-29 Superfortress. “These guys are hard workers, they’re hungry and they want to go fly. “I taught differently to adapt to younger students, but all-in-all they worked just as hard,” said Technical Sgt. Aircraft assignments include: KC-10 Extender, C-5 Galaxy, E-3 Sentry, E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (STARS) and C-130 Hercules. These aviators will man air crew positions on aircraft, where they’ll be responsible for monitoring and controlling aircraft systems, computing aircraft performance, calculating weight and balance and cross checking pilot actions. The active component had not yet opened up a pipeline for non-prior service Airmen to become flight engineers, until now. In the late 2000s, the Air Force began allowing Airmen from career fields outside of maintenance to apply for flight engineer duty, with exception to policy approval. We are extremely proud to be here and extremely proud to be part of air crew.”įor decades following World War II, until the mid-2000s, an individual could only apply to become a flight engineer after serving in a maintenance career field. “Coming into it we knew we were going to be challenged and we met those challenges. “My classmates and I put in a lot of hard work and dedication,” said Airman 1st Class Timothy Fox, flight engineer graduate. and all of them earned their wings, becoming the first class in the history of the flight engineer three-level technical school course to become career enlisted aviator basic flight engineers. The Air Force’s 344th Training Squadron Career Enlisted Aviator Center of Excellence graduated the first basic flight engineer class, comprised completely of non-prior service students, Dec. The only daughter of DK Jaiswal and Anita Jaiswal, Hina describes her achievement as a “dream come true”.JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas (AFNS). Hina Jaiswal hails from Chandigarh and has completed her Bachelor of Engineering degree from Panjab University. During the course of six months of grueling training, she trained shoulder to shoulder with her male counterparts, and displayed unflinching commitment, dedication and perseverance. She successfully completed the course and earned her Flight Engineer’s wing on February 15, 2019," the IAF said. " She has served as Chief of firing team and battery commander in a frontline Surface to Air Missile squadron, before being selected for the prestigious Flight Engineers’ Course.
Hina was commissioned into the IAF on January 5, 2015, in the engineering branch.
BENGALURU: The Indian Air Force has inducted the first woman flight engineer-Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal-who has successfully completed the course at 112 Helicopter Unit, Air Force Station, Yelahanka.
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