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First female pilot for Red Arrows
The Red Arrows display team is to get its first woman pilot, the Royal Air Force has announced.
Flt Lt Kirsty Moore will join the team from 2010 until 2012, when it is likely she will fly over the London Olympics. The 31-year-old pilot currently serves with a Tornado squadron based at RAF Marham in Norfolk.
The RAF said Red Arrow team members were picked from "some of the very finest fast-jet pilots", but up until now no woman had made the grade.
Every year about 30 fast-jet pilots apply to the Red Arrows, based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, but only the very best are successful. Flight Lieutenant Moore is not the first woman to apply for a place, although she was the first to make the short list and now be selected to join.
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June 4, 2009
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