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Monday, April 15, 2013
Chinese air force recruiting 40 female pilot cadets
Last August, five female fighter pilots completed their first solo flights on board the domestically manufactured J-10 fighter jet.
China's air force began the recruitment of 40 female pilot cadets, its 10th such drive, on Friday.
The air force will choose from healthy high-school graduates between 16 and 19 with a height between 1.65 to 1.75 meters and a weight heavier than 46 kg as well as good eyesight, said a statement from the Pilots Recruitment Bureau of the Air Force of People's Liberation Army (PLA).
The PLA first recruited female pilots in 1951. The last recruitment drive took in 30 cadets in 2008, bringing the total to 543.
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