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Nezihe Viranyalı
Nezihe Viranyalı (1925 – 22 December 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 the Yurkish female pilot 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
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