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Nezihe Viranyalı (1925 – December 22, 2004) was one of the first Turkish female aviators. She was trained by Sabiha Gökçen, Turkey's first female pilot. ==Biography== Born in Vidin, Bulgaria of Turkish descent, she immigrated to Turkey as she was impressed by Sabiha Gökçen's flight tour around the Balkan countries and the air show at Sofia in 1938. At the age of sixteen, she enrolled at the flight school ''Türkkușu'' (literally ''Turkishbird'') of the Turkish Aeronautical Association, where Sabiha Gökçen was a trainer. Nezihe Viranyalı learned skydiving first, and later obtained her pilot license for gliders and airplanes. She was the last of the four female aviators trained by Sabiha Gökçen, the others being Edibe Subaşı (:tr:Edibe Subaşı), Yıldız Uçman (:tr:Yıldız Uçman), and Sahavet Karapas. She herself trained hundreds of aviators at the Türkkușu Flight School. In 1955, she took part as a skydiver at the international air shows held in the Netherlands and Germany. Invited by the American pilot Jacqueline Cochran, she went to the United States to attend a course on civil aviation at the University of Tennessee on a scholarship.〔 In 1956, Nezihe Viranyalı displayed her flying skills at an air show in Baghdad, Iraq.〔 In her career, she parachuted more than 100 times, had more than 180 hours of flight time on gliders and more than 2,800 hours on airplanes.〔 Nezihe Viranyalı retired from her position as an instructor from the Türkkușu Flight School. She is quoted as saying "If you’ve made a good landing, it’s impossible to recapture that joy again on another day. The emotions you experience as you bring your aircraft to the parking place and turn off the engine are nothing less than what great conquerors feel when they storm the gates of a fortress. And you have the right to feel that way. You too are a conqueror, who has just conquered the skies..."〔〔 〕 Stuart Kline's exhaustive work ''Türk Havacılık Kronolojisi / A Chronicle of Turkish Aviation'' mentions her with pictures. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nezihe Viranyalı」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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