Ulrike Fitzer (née Flender; born 1982 in
Aidlingen
Aidlingen is a municipality in the district of Böblingen in Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
History
The County of Württemberg came into possession of Aidlingen when it was sold to Württemberg by the Lords of Bondorf in 1365. Aidlingen was rule ...
) is a
German Air Force
The German Air Force (, ) is the aerial warfare branch of the , the armed forces of Germany. The German Air Force (as part of the ) was founded in 1956 during the era of the Cold War as the aerial warfare branch of the armed forces of West Ger ...
pilot.
Life
Ulrike Fitzer was the first woman to become a fighter pilot in the German Air Force. She graduated in 2006, from the
Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program at
Sheppard Air Force Base
Sheppard Air Force Base is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located north of the central business district of Wichita Falls, in Wichita County, Texas, United States. It is the largest training base and most diversified in Air Educatio ...
. Also, she is the first German woman to pilot the
Tornado
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with the surface of Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the ...
, having completed training in 2007 at
Holloman Air Force Base
Holloman Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base established in 1942 located six miles (10 km) southwest of the central business district of Alamogordo, which is the county seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States. The b ...
.
A TV-documentary (''Mission am Limit'') on her achievements was produced in 2007.
References
External links
Sheppard Air Force Base News, 9/22/2006*
1982 births
Living people
German Air Force pilots
German aviation pioneers
German women aviators
20th-century German women
21st-century German women
Military personnel from Baden-Württemberg
Women aviation pioneers
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