First female RoKAF F-16 pilot

Gamera · by **Gamera** » 23 Nov 2007, 03:19

The ROKAF has its first female KF-16 pilot:

RoKAFs first female KF-16 pilot

First Female KF-16 Pilot

Gamera · by **Gamera** » 23 Nov 2007, 03:51

More photos, without helmet:

http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... setid=1352
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... setid=1329
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... setid=1352
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... setid=1352
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... setid=1352
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... wssetid=82
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... wssetid=82
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... wssetid=82

Gamera · by **Gamera** » 28 Nov 2007, 19:07

To quote an ancient Chinese proverb: "Don't drink and fly. You might spill your drink." 8D

femalepilot · by **femalepilot** » 28 Nov 2007, 19:10

Is there any video about her or other F-16 female pilot in web?

Amigaman · by **Amigaman** » 29 Nov 2007, 07:05

I don't care if she or any females are fighter pilots or not, just get the cameras out their faces and let them do their jobs; defending their countries!

Gamera · by **Gamera** » 29 Nov 2007, 14:25

FYI, I contributed links to photos of, eh, JASDF F-2, USAF F-16, and, eh, other aircraft seen at Japanese air shows at Japanese air bases, to the thread at

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showth ... ost1187000

Gamera · by **Gamera** » 05 Jul 2008, 10:05

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/ ... 12ied.html

3 July 2008:
ROKAF KF-16 female pilot HA Yoo Mi shakes hands with South Korean fashion designer Andre KIM, for the red scarf.

Gamera · by **Gamera** » 07 Jul 2008, 08:20

Can't read/understand Korean (OK, I'm not perfect), so checked non-Korean sites.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/sp ... 26992.html

07-03-2008 18:16

Scarf for pilots: Fashion designer Andre Kim ties a red neck scarf round Capt. Ha Jeong-mi, the first South Korean female pilot for the KF-16 fighter, during a ceremony in Seoul to designate July 3 as 窶徼he Day of Pilots.窶・

http://a-odagiri.seesaa.net/article/102091262.html
http://japanese.joins.com/article/artic ... aid=102027

3 July was Pilots' Day in ROK.
The KF-16 crash on 20 July 2007, involved a ROKAF Captain whose father was also a ROKAF pilot killed in accident in 1984.
After this crash, ROKAF decided to remake the pilot's red scarf, to raise pilots' morale, and requested fashion designer Andre KIM. He agreed and accepted no design fee.

During ceremony with ROKAF REMFs, Korean War ROKAF retired/veteran pilots, and ROKAF active-duty pilots, in Seoul, on 3 July 2008, he presented the first redesigned red scarfs to ROKAF.
The redesigned red scarfs will be distributed to all ROKAF active-duty and Korean War retired/veteran pilots.

LJDAUER · by **LJDAUER** » 08 Jul 2008, 14:54

Most of us "westerners" cannot truly appreciate the feat HA Yoo Mi accomplished. Only the Best of the Best get to be fighter pilots in Korea, and for a woman to achive this goal, is almost unheard of. But why not. It is the Korean woman who has kept this country going through centries of wars when the men decimated by their enimies. The chinnese, the japanese and the north koreans with the chineese.
Traditionally women are thought of as homemakers and family mangers in Korea. This womans accomplishement in her culture are not only amazing but border on the impossible. she deserves congratualtions !!!! :cheers:

Gamera · by **Gamera** » 08 Jul 2008, 15:00

AFAIK, Chinese air forces (both) and JASDF have no jet fighter female pilot yet, although they have helo and transport aircraft female pilots.
Don't know about the North Korean AF.

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/ ... 12pxq.html

7 July 2008:
First batch of 22 PLAAF female student pilots formally begin fighter pilot training.
Back in 2005, chosen from 200K applicants from 12 provinces.
Already completed PLAAF aviation university and basic formation flight courses.
PLAAF already has seven batches of transport aircraft female pilots.

Gamera · by **Gamera** » 26 Jul 2008, 05:10

http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... setid=1352
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... wssetid=82
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... setid=1352
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... setid=1352
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... wssetid=80

Some news photos of the ROKAF red scarf ceremony.

http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... wssetid=80

ROKAF vs its neighbours?

Gamera · by **Gamera** » 28 Oct 2008, 05:39

http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... wssetid=82
http://kr.img.search.yahoo.com/search/i ... &top=frame

ROKAF, 20th FW, first KF-16 female pilot Captain HA Jeong Mi (29) and ROKAF aircraft mechanic Sergeant First Class YI In Deuk (30) were married on 30 August 2008.

(Obviously, will someone who can read Korean, fill in the blanks, and verify their ranks?)

Gamera · by **Gamera** » 10 May 2009, 13:42

http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... setid=1329

Yahoo! South Korea News old article and photo, dated 2008.05.21. Apparently an interview or report about Captain HA Jeong Mi.

Gamera · by **Gamera** » 02 Jul 2009, 17:34

http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... ssetid=746
http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/s ... ssetid=746

14 June 2009:
Yahoo! South Korea News articles about Captain HA Jeong Mi, ROKAF, the KF-16 female pilot.
From what I can deduce from Google USA Translate, seem to be "Girls be ambitious" articles to encourage school girls to struggle for careers currently with few women?

Gamera · by **Gamera** » 25 Dec 2009, 18:00

Instead of reading the Korean news articles at
http://www.daejonilbo.com/news/newsitem ... _no=855128
http://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/view/at ... PAGE_CD=12
http://news.joins.com/article/843/39118 ... list|list1
http://pic.joins.com/article/photo/arti ... id=3900868
I took a shortcut, and read the Chinese news article at
http://military.china.com/zh_cn/bbs2/11 ... 20795.html
http://military.china.com/zh_cn/bbs2/11 ... 795_1.html

On 1 December 2009, after seven months of training, Captain KIM Hyo Seon (26), of 157th FS, 20th FW, becomes the second KF-16 female pilot of the ROKAF.