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Pune
woman sets record by 'flying like a bird' over Spain
Monday, September 20, 2010 07:52:21 PM,
IANS
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Pune:
Pune sportswoman Shital V. Mahajan-Rane 'flew' like a bird over
Spain and successfully created a new Indian record of jumping from
an aircraft at 13,000 feet, an aide said here Monday.
Attired in a costume known as 'wing suit or a birdman-suit' with
attached wings, she jumped from the aircraft late Sunday and
soared in the skies like a bird till 4,000 feet.
Later, she opened her parachute and had a safe, normal landing on
the ground below as hundreds of assembled people clapped and
cheered her.
"Such a jump has not been tried by any Indian woman so far and it
has become a national record for me," Shital told IANS by phone
from Spain.
Describing her experience, she said: "It was too great to describe
in words."
"I got to know how birds can fly in the air and I am really happy
that I did it successfully," she said.
Shital, born and brought up in Pune, is no stranger to creating
records around the world.
On April 18, 2004, she made an amateur jump over the North Pole in
minus 37 degrees Celsius from a height of 2,400 feet.
Two years later, Dec 16, 2006, she travelled to Antartica and
jumped on the South Pole from a height of 11,600 feet in minus 38
degrees Celsius.
These two records, Shital said, make her the only woman in the
world to have jumped over the earth's both poles.
Shital and her husband Vaibhav Rane set another record April 19,
2008, by wedding in a hot air balloon, India's first.
The priest and some family members travelled for the marriage
rituals - which were conducted in the huge hot air balloon
hovering 700 feet in the sky above Pune.
After their marriage, Shital and Vaibhav Rane have settled in
Finland and the couple has a pair of twins.
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