Nicola Baumann

Nicola Baumann (born 10 March 1985) became second female fighter pilot in the history of the German Air Force in 2007 flying both Tornado and Eurofighter Typhoon in Luftwaffe.

Nicola Baumann
Oberleutnant Nicola Baumann
Born (1985-03-10) March 10, 1985
Munich, Germany
Allegiance Germany
Years of service2004–2018
RankMajor[1]

Life

Nicola Baumann's mother flew hang gliders, and her younger sister Nena is a pilot with Lufthansa. In 2004, she joined the German Air Force, attending a one-year school focusing on officer training. She then spent a year in academics to prepare for pilot training set up for 53 weeks at the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program (ENJJPT) at Sheppard Air Force Base and qualified in 2007. At the end of the training cycle, Baumann was assigned to the 322nd Squadron in Bavaria, flying Tornados with Major Ulrike Flender, Germany's first female fighter pilot. Flender graduated pilot training about 10 months ahead of Baumann, also at ENJJPT. Baumann became an instructor pilot at ENJJPT with the 459th Flying Training Squadron in 2012,[2] and completed her flying training as a Eurofighter Typhoon pilot in 2015.[3]

German female astronaut candidate

In 2016, Germany was looking for its first woman astronaut. All of eleven Germans who have so far voyaged into outer space were men. As a fighter pilot, Nicola Baumann applied to be Germany's first female astronaut among 86 candidates on the list as of September 2016[4] and was one of 30 women taking part in the final selection process as of December 2016.[5] She was selected as one of two winners,[6] but later withdrew from the programme.[7]

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gollark: Why did states happen in the *first* place if they aren't good and there's a stable alternative?
gollark: > Collectivization will take place naturally as soon as state coercion is over, the workers themselveswill own their workplaces as the capitalists will no longer have any control over them. This iswhat happened during the Spanish Revolution of 1936, during which workers and farmers seized andmanaged the means of production collectively. For those capitalists who had a good attitude towardsworkers before the revolution, there was also a place - they joined the horizontal labor collectivesUm. This seems optimistic.
gollark: > "Legally anyone can start their own business. Just launch a company!”. These words oftenmentioned by the fans of capitalism are very easy to counter, because they have a huge flaw. Namely,if everyone started a company, who would work for all these companiesThis is a bizarre objection. At the somewhat extreme end, stuff *could* probably still work fine if the majority of people were contracted out for work instead of acting as employees directly.
gollark: The hierarchical direct democracy thing it describes doesn't seem like a very complete or effective coordination mechanism, and it seems like it could easily create unfreedom.

References
  1. Vooren, Christian (2017-04-19). "Zwei Frauen - dem Ziel ihrer Träume so nah". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Berlin: Verlag Der Tagesspiegel GmbH. Retrieved 20 April 2017. Für das Bewerbungsverfahren war die Erfahrung für Baumann, Dienstrang Major, ein Vorteil.
  2. http://www.sheppard.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/3375/Article/368012/dreaming-big-earns-german-pilot-distinction-in-her-own-right.aspx
  3. http://www.laage-online.de/?p=3296
  4. http://www.dw.com/en/a-female-astronaut-for-germany/av-36444034
  5. http://www.dw.com/en/germanys-first-female-astronaut/av-36791984
  6. http://dieastronautin.de/?page_id=1354
  7. http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-021618a-die-astronautin-germany-women-space.html
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