{"id":9257,"date":"2017-04-06T10:11:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T04:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=9257"},"modified":"2017-04-06T10:11:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T04:41:39","slug":"ayesha-aziz-first-kashmiri-to-fly-mig-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=9257","title":{"rendered":"Ayesha Aziz First Kashmiri To Fly MIG-29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>JAMMU:<\/strong>\u00a021-year-old, Ayesha Aziz may become youngest Kashmiri to fly pilot an aircraft. Hopefully she may also become first Indian woman to fly MIG-29 fighter jet at Russia\u2019s Sokul airbase.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ayesha realized her dream of becoming a pilot when she got her commercial license last week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI want to reach the edge of space, for which we are talking terms with the Russian agency to fly the MIG-29,\u201d Ayesha said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSo, that is going to be the next expedition \u2013 to fly the MIG-29 fighter jet,\u201d she added.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ayesha received training while she was still in school. At 16, she was given a student pilot licence by the prestigious Bombay Flying Club. In 2012, she completed a two-month advanced space training course at NASA. She was among the three Indians chosen. Her inspiration is Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ayesha\u2019s mother belongs to the Baramulla district in Jammu and Kashmir while her father is from Mumbai in Maharashtra.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI am proud of her achievements. We want her to go higher and higher. She is my idol and she motives me,\u201dsaid Areeb Lokhandwala, Ayesha\u2019s brother.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMy message for Kashmiri girls would be to chase their dreams, to not let anything let them down, have goals in your life and achieve them\u201d, said Ayesha<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAMMU:\u00a021-year-old, Ayesha Aziz may become youngest Kashmiri to fly pilot an aircraft. Hopefully she may also become first Indian woman to fly MIG-29 fighter jet at Russia\u2019s Sokul airbase. Ayesha realized her dream of becoming a pilot when she got her commercial license last week. \u201cI want to reach the edge of space, for which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}