Virginie Guyot
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Commandant Virginie Guyot (born 30 December 1976 in Angers ) is a fighter pilot of the Armée de l'Air who achieved an historical first when she was appointed leader of the Patrouille de France , becoming the first woman in the world to command a precision aerobatic demonstration team.
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Career
After following high school and scientific classes prépa in the Prytanée Militaire , an advanced military secondary institution, Virginie Guyot entered the Ecole de l'Air , the French Air Force officers' school, in 1997. After her degree, she joined the fighter pilot training Air Force base in Tours .
She received her fighter pilot wings in 2002, just three years after Caroline Aigle , the first woman to reach that position in the history of the Armée de l'Air. She was assigned to the Mirage F1-CR in the Escadron de reconnaissance 2/33 Savoie .
She was engaged in operations in Chad , Tajikistan and Afghanistan . Chef d'escadron (squadron leader) since 2007, she was promoted to the rank of Commandant ( Major ) in 2009.
At the same time, she was the first woman to join the Patrouille de France , one of the world's oldest and most skilled demonstration teams, [1] in which she was directly appointed as Charognard (deputy leader). On 25 November 2009, she became the first, and so far only, woman to lead a prestigious aerobatic team.
Following her service in the Patrouille de France (no one can serve as leader for more than a year), she plans to join the Etat-major (Air Force Staff).
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- ↑ "Charles Bremner - Times Online - WBLG: French pilots show women can fly" . Archived from the original on 2008-04-07 . Retrieved 2009-01-04 .