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Interview: Capt. Aarohi Pandit

Flying over the Atlantic Ocean is a humbling experience...

July 1, 2019
Sur les traces d’Amelia

CHRONIQUE / Dis-moi, Aarohi, c’était comment là-haut, dans ton petit avion de rien du tout? Aarohi Pandit, une jeune aviatrice indienne de 23 ans, est devenue la toute première femme à traverser l’Atlantique en solo à bord d’un avion ultraléger sportif, la semaine dernière.

May 23, 2019
Mumbai Girl Aarohi Pandit Becomes The First Woman To Fly Solo Across The Atlantic!

There was a time, not too long ago, when the farthest a family would send their girls was to the extent of the kitchen, or maybe the corner grocery shop in the neighbourhood, accompanied by, of course, their elder brothers or fathers. For the ones who weren’t raised in such a conservative household, they were allowed an education.

May 23, 2019
Mumbai girl is world’s 1st to cross Atlantic Ocean in Light Sports Aircraft

Captain Aarohi Pandit, a 23-year-old pilot from Mumbai became the world's first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo in a Light Sports Aircraft (LSA), thrilling her family, friends and aviation circles in Mumbai on Tuesday

May 22, 2019
Woman flies ultralight aircraft across Atlantic

Aarohi Pandit flew across the Atlantic Ocean in an ultralight plane and just arrived in Nunavut — and she says it was "like I'm riding on a white bird with long wings."

May 20, 2019
Mumbai’s Aarohi Pandit becomes world’s first pilot to cross Atlantic Ocean in LSA

Last year in July, a strong willed and fearless young pilot set out to achieve something that no one in India had attempted before and today, the same young aviator is all set to return home after breaking a world record and becoming the first woman in the world to cross Atlantic Ocean solo in a Light Sports Aircraft (LSA).

May 20, 2019
Indian woman crosses Atlantic Ocean in light plane

Aarohi Pandit has been glued to her iPhone and Macbook, binge-watching movies and documentaries over the past 10 months. Not unusual for a 23-year-old, except these distractions come during the breaks in a mission unlike any undertaken by...

May 15, 2019
Mumbai Girl First in the World to Cross Atlantic Ocean in LSA

Pandit achieved the feat around midnight Monday-Tuesday (May 13-14) when she landed her tiny aircraft at Iqaluit Airport in Canada, after a grueling 3,000 km long flight, under adverse and extreme weather conditions following take-off from Wick, Scotland (United Kingdom), with brief stopovers in Greenland and Iceland.

May 15, 2019
Mumbai Girl Crosses Atlantic Solo

Captain Aarohi Pandit, a 23-year-old pilot from Mumbai, became the world’s first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo in a Light Sports Aircraft (LSA).

May 15, 2019
Making India Proud

In a moment of pride for the nation, Captain Aarohi Pandit, a 23-year old pilot from Mumbai became the world's first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in a light sport aircraft (LSA). A light-sport aircraft (LSA) is a fairly new category of small, lightweight aircraft.

May 15, 2019
Mumbai’s captain Aarohi Pandit is first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a Light Sport Aircraft

Along the way, she also became the world's first woman pilot to successfully complete a solo flight across the treacherous Greenland ice cap in an LSA

May 15, 2019
Mumbai woman is world’s first to cross Atlantic Ocean in LSA

A resident of Borivali, northwest Mumbai suburb, Pandit underwent an arduous seven-month preparatory training schedule in India, Greenland, Siberia, and Italy.

May 15, 2019
Indian Pilot Becomes 1st Woman to Fly Solo in LSA Over Atlantic

The feat was achieved by Aarohi Pandit, from the Indian city of Mumbai, on Monday when she landed her tiny aircraft at Iqaluit Airport in Canada, having covered a 3,000 km distance by flight under highly inclement weather conditions after taking off from the city of Wick in Scotland.

May 15, 2019
Meet Captain Aarohi Pandit, the 23-year-old girl who became world’s first woman to cross Atlantic Ocean in LSA

Captain Aarohi Pandit, a 23-year-old pilot from Mumbai became the world's first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo in a Light Sports Aircraft (LSA), thrilling her family, friends and aviation circles on Tuesday.

May 14, 2019
Mumbai’s Capt. Aarohi Pandit becomes world’s first to cross Atlantic in LSA

Captain Aarohi Pandit, a 23-year-old pilot from Mumbai became the world's first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean solo in a Light Sports Aircraft (LSA)

May 14, 2019
Aarohi Pandit is world’s first woman to fly solo across Atlantic Ocean

Mumbai-based Pandit is flying around the globe as part of the WE! Women Empower Expedition; the expedition is the first all-women team to circumnavigate the world in LSA.

May 14, 2019
Ung indisk kvinde: Jordomrejse i eget fly

A young Indian woman has just set a world record. She is the first woman in the world to have ever flown alone over the ice cap with a small sports plane, and is now in Nuuk.

May 5, 2019
First woman to fly around the globe

Tuttugu og þriggja ára indversk kona, sem stefnir á að verða fyrsta konan til að fljúga fisflugvél umhverfis hnöttinn hefur undanfarnar vikur undirbúið sig hér á Íslandi fyrir seinni hluta ferðarinnar. Tilgangurinn er meðal annars að sýna indverskum konum að þeim séu allir vegir færir.

April 29, 2019
The first woman to fly a light plane from India to Greenland

Aarohi Pandit er fyrsta konan sem flýgur fisflugvél frá Indlandi til Grænlands. Hún er búinn að vera hér í Eyjum síðan í desember til að þjálfa sig að fljúga í vindi.

April 25, 2019
Soaring High

Mumbai pilots Aarohi Pandit and Keithair Misquitta are set to create a record by circumnavigating the earth in an ultralight plane.

November 30, 2018
Two Indian women to circumnavigate globe

Pandit and Misquitta are flying a Light Sport Aircraft from the Tropic to the Arctic - India to Greenland. Their journey in a tiny single engine, two-seater plane weighing less than 500 kg, over deserts, mountains, plains and oceans, is part of a daring circumnavigation attempt in the world.

November 4, 2018
Indian Women Could Become First To Circumnavigate Earth In 2-Seater Plane

Aarohi Pandit, 22, and Keithair Misquitta 24, set course westward from Patiala, flying a Pipistrel Sinus 912 aircraft across Punjab, Rajasthan, Gujarat stopping in Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Serbia, Slovenia, Germany, France, UK, Iceland and Greenland and overflying Croatia, Bulgaria and Austria.

November 3, 2018
Two Indian women’s mission to circumnavigate globe ‘challenging but incredible’

Keithair Misquitta is on a mission along with Aarohi Pandit to become the first Indian women to circumnavigate the globe in an ultra-light motor glider. She says it is not an easy mission.

November 2, 2018
Challenging but incredible: Indian women on circumnavigating globe in 90 days

Keithair Misquitta is on a mission along with Aarohi Pandit to become the first Indian women to circumnavigate the globe in an ultra-light motor glider. She says it is not an easy mission.

November 2, 2018
Two Indian women’s mission to circumnavigate globe ‘challenging but incredible’

Pandit and Misquitta are flying a Light Sport Aircraft from the Tropic to the Arctic -- India to Greenland. Their journey in a tiny single engine, two-seater plane weighing less than 500 kg, over deserts, mountains, plains and oceans, is part of a daring circumnavigation attempt in the world.

November 2, 2018
Two Indian women’s mission to circumnavigate globe

Pandit and Misquitta are flying a light sport aircraft from the Tropic to the Arctic — India to Greenland

November 2, 2018
Two Indian women’s mission to circumnavigate globe ‘challenging but incredible’

Phase 1 of the Colors-WE! Expedition has now been completed and the circumnavigation will resume soon.

November 2, 2018
Meet Aarohi Pandit and Keithair Misquitta, the first women in the world to fly a Light Sport Aircraft from India to Greenland

Not only are Mumbai-based Pandit and Misquitta the first Indian women to go on such an adventure, they are also the only women who hold a license to charter LSA flights in India. They’ve flown to with 27 stops over a span of 51 days.

November 2, 2018
Meet Aarohi Pandit and Keithair Misquitta, the first women in the world to fly a Light Sport Aircraft from India to Greenland

Two young women in their tiny plane landed onto a runway at Karachi a few weeks ago, becoming the first women civilian pilots in India to undertake a circumnavigation of the globe in a Light Sport Aircraft (LSA).

October 23, 2018
Live on 94.3 Radio One with Hrishi K

Landing in Pakistan, playing with puppies in Greenland, adventure sport in Iran & handling the unpredictable AtlanticOcean weather. Keithair Misquitta & Aarohi Pandit have become the 1st women in the world to fly a single engine motorglider from India to Greenland as part of the WE Expedition

October 23, 2018
The sky is the limit

This August, Mumbai-based pilots, Captain Keithair Misquitta and Captain Aarohi Pandit, took off from Patiala, aiming to become the first women to circumnavigate the globe in an ultra-light motor glider.

October 20, 2018
छोट्या विमानातून जगभ्रमंतीवर निघालेल्या आरोही पंडित आणि किथेअर मिस्क्विटाशी गप्पा

मुंबईच्या दोन वैमानिक कन्यांनी पृथ्वी भ्रमणासाठी पसंती दिली ती चक्क विमानाला. अवघ्या २२ वर्षांची आरोही पंडित आणि २४ वर्षांची किथेअर मिस्क्विटा या दोन मुली लाईट स्पोर्ट एअरक्राफ्ट घेऊन महिला सक्षमीकरणाच्या प्रचारासाठी आकाशात झेपावल्या.

October 17, 2018
‘आकाश’कन्या

‘बॉम्बे फ्लाइंग क्लब’च्या या दोन तरुणींनी विमान उड्डाणामध्ये इतिहास घडवण्यासाठी पाऊल उचलले आहे. वजनाने ५०० किलोग्रामपेक्षाही हलके असणारे ‘माही’ नावाचे एअरक्राफ्ट घेऊन आकाशातून पृथ्वी प्रदक्षिणा करण्याचा या दोघींनी विडा उचलला आहे.

October 12, 2018
Mumbai Girls Are 1st Indian Women to Fly Light Sport Aircraft Around the World!

Conceptualised and executed with the support of Social Access Communications, in association with the Ministry of Women and Child Development, the idea of the expedition was to fly this all-woman crew over 22 countries in 84 arduous legs for 100 days, over land, mountain, sea and ice.

October 8, 2018
‘Sea and silence’: Women pilots recount record flight

Though they are pilots, they didn’t imagine that they would one day fly across the world in a small aircraft and become first Indian women to achieve this feat.

October 7, 2018
Back home but raring to go

At around 2000 feet, Aarohi Pandit hit a heavy downdraft. Mahi, the tiny Pipistrel Sinus 912 she was flying fell more than 700 feet towards the ocean. It felt, she says, “like a head-shot”, a punch to the face.

October 6, 2018
The world will have to wait

Aarohi Pandit, 22, and Keithair Misquitta, 24, took off from Bhuj and landed in Karachi, becoming the first Indian aircraft piloted by an all-woman crew to land in Pakistan. The Mumbai duo were just the beginning of a far more ambitious quest: Women Empower (WE!), as their expedition is called, is their attempt to become the first women to circumnavigate the earth in a light sport aircraft.

October 5, 2018
ಪುಟ್ಟ ವಿಮಾನದಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಶ್ವ ಪರ್ಯಟನೆ: ಇಬ್ಬರು ಮಹಿಳೆಯರ ಸಾಹಸಗಾಥೆ

ಮಹಿಳಾ ಸಬಲೀಕರಣ ಮತ್ತು ಬೇಟಿ ಬಚಾವೋ, ಬೇಟಿ ಪಡಾವೋ ಆಂದೋಲನವನ್ನು ಜಗತ್ತಿನಾದ್ಯಂತ ಪಸರಿಸುವ ಉದ್ದೇಶ ಹೊತ್ತು ಇಬ್ಬರು ಸಾಹಸೀ ಮಹಿಳಾ ಪೈಲೆಟ್ ಗಳು ಜುಲೈ ನಲ್ಲಿ ವಿಮಾನ ಪರ್ಯಟನೆ ಆರಂಭಿಸಿದ್ದಾರೆ.

September 22, 2018
Pipistrel plane makes Slovene stop in 1st All Female Flight Around the World

http://www.total-slovenia-news.com/lifestyle/1929-pipistrel-plane-makes-slovene-stop-in-1st-all-female-flight-around-the-world

August 24, 2018
Indijki s Pipistrelovim letalom kot prvi ženski okoli sveta

Na poti okoli sveta sta se v ajdovskem Pipistrelu ustavili Indijki, ki želita kot prva povsem ženska posadka obleteti svet. Njuno letalo, ki sta ga poimenovali Mahi, bo v Pipistrelu ostalo en dan za redna vzdrževalna dela in servis po določenem številu preletenih ur, predvidoma v petek dopoldan pa nadaljujeta pot.

August 23, 2018
Indijki s Pipistrelovim letalom kot prvi ženski okoli sveta

Na poti okoli sveta sta se v ajdovskem Pipistrelu ustavili Indijki, ki želita kot prva povsem ženska posadka obleteti svet. Skupno bosta preleteli nad 37.000 kilometrov.

August 23, 2018
Indijki s Pipistrelovim letalom kot prvi ženski okoli sveta

Ajdovščina - Na poti okoli sveta sta se v ajdovskem Pipistrelu ustavili Indijki, ki želita kot prva povsem ženska posadka obleteti svet. Njuno letalo, ki sta ga poimenovali Mahi, bo v Pipistrelu ostalo en dan za redna vzdrževalna dela in servis po določenem številu preletenih ur, predvidoma v petek dopoldan pa nadaljujeta pot.

August 23, 2018
Indijki s Pipistrelovim letalom kot prvi ženski okoli sveta

Na poti okoli sveta sta se v ajdovskem Pipistrelu ustavili Indijki, ki želita kot prva povsem ženska posadka obleteti svet. Njuno letalo, ki sta ga poimenovali Mahi, bo v Pipistrelu ostalo en dan za redna vzdrževalna dela in servis po določenem številu preletenih ur, predvidoma v petek dopoldan pa nadaljujeta pot.

August 23, 2018
Indijski pilotki s Pipistrelovim letalom na poti okrog sveta

Keithair Misquitta in Aerohi Pandi, sta se kot prvi ženski pilotki na poti okrog sveta z ultralahkim letalom po 8000 preletenih kilometrih od štarta v Indiji, ustavili v Ajdovščini. Pipistrelovo letalo Sinus 912, s katerim letita, je bilo pred nadaljevanjem poti “doma” deležno rednih vzdrževalnih del in servisa.

August 23, 2018
Dve Indijke na misiji leta oko planete za manje od 90 dana; Ultra-lako letenje naučile u Srbiji

Aarohi Pandit (22) i Keithair Misquitta (23) započele su misiju svojih života. Planiraju da oblete oko sveta za manje od 90 dana, preko 21 države, leteći na zapad u ultralakom avionu Pipistrel Sinus 912

August 21, 2018
Indijke na misiji leta oko planete za manje od 90 dana; Ultra-lako letenje naučile u Srbiji

An interview of the WE! Pilots with Petar Vojinović from Tango Six at Aerodrom Vojka.

August 20, 2018
दो भारतीय महिला पायलट दुनिया की सैर पर: कीथियर मिस्क्विटा, अरोही पंडित

दो युवा भारतीय महिलाएं इतिहास लिखने के लिये तैयार है. वो एक मोटर ग्लाइडर विमान को लेकर तीन महाद्वीपों की सैर करेंगी और 100 दिनों में 40,000 किमी का सफर तय करने जा रही है. इन पायलटों द्वारा एक विश्व रिकॉर्ड बनाने जा रहा है जो कि पूरी तरह से महिलाओं का गैर-वाणिज्यिक नागरिक अभियान के तौर पर याद किया जायेंगा.

August 9, 2018
ఇద్దరమ్మాయిలు.. ఒక చిన్న విమానం.. లక్ష్యం 23దేశాలు.. గడువు 100 రోజులు

‘ఎగిరిపోతే ఎంత బావుంటుంది’.. అని పాడుకోవడానికి బానే ఉంటుంది. కానీ ఈ ఇద్దరమ్మాయిలు నిజంగానే ఎగిరిపోవడంలో సంతోషాన్ని వెతుకున్నారు. వాళ్లలో ఒకరు 21ఏళ్ల ఆరోహి పండిట్. మరొకరు 23ఏళ్ల కీథియర్ మిస్కిటా.

August 2, 2018
भारत की दो लड़कियां स्पोर्ट्स प्लेन ‘माही’ से लगाएंगी दुनिया का चक्कर

होठों पर यही गाना गुनगुनाते हुए दो लड़कियां, 23 साल की कीथियर मिस्क्विटा और 21 साल की आरोही पंडित निकल पड़ी हैं दुनिया की सैर पर. पंजाब के पटियाला एयर बेस से इन लड़कियों ने रविवार को उड़ान भरी.

July 31, 2018
Flying around the world on ‘Beti Bachao’ mission

Spearheading government’s “Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao” campaign, two women pilots — Aarohi Pandit (22) and Keithair Misquitta (23) — took to the skies from the Patiala Aviation Club on Sunday in a bid to circumnavigate the globe aboard a light sports aircraft (LSA) in 90 days.

July 30, 2018
Two Patiala women to fly around the world in 90 days

PATIALA: Two women, Keithair Gilroy Misquitta (23) and Aarohi Pandit (22), fly around the world from Patiala Aviation Club on July 30. The women, who have been trained here, will be completing the journey in 90 days.

July 30, 2018
90 दिन में दुनिया नापेंगी देश की दो जाबांज बेटियां, पटियाला से आज भरी उड़ान

कीथर मिसविक्टा (23) और आरोही पंडित (22) रविवार को पटियाला के एविएशन क्लब से छोटे जहाज के जरिये वर्ल्ड टूर के लिए रवाना हुईं। अपनी यात्रा के दौरान दोनों लड़कियां बेटी बचाओ बेटी पढ़ाओ और महिला सशक्तीकरण का संदेश देंगी।

July 30, 2018
2 women pilots flying around the world to spearhead ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’

Patiala, July 30: In a bid to spearhead the government's "Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao" campaign across the globe, two women pilots - Aarohi Pandit (22) and Keithair Misquitta (23) - took to the skies from the Patiala Aviation Club on Sunday.

July 30, 2018
Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

Capt. Keithair Misquitta (right) and Capt. Aarohi Pandit being greeted by their parents before their world tour programme for awareness of "Beti Padhao, Beti Bachao" campaign, by Mahi, the light sports aircraft or LSA, at the Aviation Club in Patiala.

July 29, 2018
90 दिनों में पूरी दुनिया की उड़ान भरेंगी भारत की दो बेटियाँ

लड़कियां , चिड़िया होती हैं, पर पंख नहीं होते लड़कियों के.... यह बात पुरानी हो चुकी है...इन लड़कियों के पंख भी ने और इन की उड़ान भी लोगों की सोच से ऊँची होगी....महज़ 20 साल की महिला पायलट आरोही पंडित और कीथर मिसविकटा 90 दिनों में दुनिया को नाप कर बता देंगी कि लड़कियों के सपनों के पंखों में कितनी ताकत होती है

July 29, 2018
These Mumbai youngsters will be the first women to fly around the world in a light sport aircraft

On a small airfield in Patiala, where grass grows in the cracks in the taxiway, we are waiting for clearance from the tower. From beneath my headset, the engine is no louder than a pedestal fan in a wedding hall.

July 28, 2018
Two Indian Women Aim To Fly The World In 90 Days In Their Tiny Plane

In Punjab's Patiala, where they have been training, the pilots are waiting for a spot of clear sky before they can fly to Ahmedabad and then cross Pakistani airspace as they fly westwards

July 27, 2018
৯০ দিনে গোটা দুনিয়া উড়ে বেরাবেন ২ ভারতীয় কন্যা

২ ভারতীয় মেয়ে এবার স্বপ্ন পূরণের পথে ৷ চার বছর ধরে তাঁরা অনুশীলন চালিয়েছেন ৷ তারপর এই পদক্ষেপ তাঁদের ৷ ৯০ দিনে ২৩ টি দেশ ঘুরবেন তাঁরা ৷ ঘুরবেন না বলে উড়বেন বলাই ঠিক হবে ৷

July 27, 2018
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