Ulrike Flender

Ulrike Flender (* 1982 in Aidlingen ) is a female German officer.

She was the first woman who was used by the German Air Force as a fighter pilot and the first German Tornado pilot.

Life

Ulrike Flender grew up as the daughter of an electrical engineer and a civil engineer on Aidlingen. Her original career choice was that of a woman astronaut. During her school years, she completed an internship at a troops Tornado Season.

In 2003 she passed the Abitur and applied on a proposal from her father as a cadet in the Air Force. Your first flight took place Ulrike Flender in May 2005 in the 3rd German Air Force training squadron at Airline Training Center Arizona Goodyear (Arizona ) in a single-engine propeller - type machine Grob G 120A.

She continued her flight training in February 2007 for 13 months at the Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas continues. To their training supersonic training there was one in the Northrop T-38 A. On September 22, 2007, she was awarded the military air vehicle driver's license. On the Holloman Air Force Base, she trained with a weapons system officer.

As of 2008, Ulrike Flender was used in the Fighter Bomber Wing 32 on the Lechfeld Air Base. For her role as a pioneer, she said: "I did not want to be the first, but always just fly ."

In October 2013 she finished in TaktLwG 73 "S" their retraining for Euro Fighter pilot.