Real-life ‘Top Gun’ pilot flies supersonic while pregnant, alongside her husband

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'Baby Olme, who is expected to arrive in April 2023, has become one of the first babies in the Department of Defense to clock 9.2 hours in a supersonic aircraft.'

Lauren's aircraft, the B-1, is the only super-sonic bomber in the Air Force, reaching speeds up to 1.2 mach, or 900-plus miles per hour.

The couple met at the Air Force Academy in November 2011 and got married seven months after graduation.In 2020, the couple completed the Air Force’s version of “Top Gun,” the U.S. Air Force Weapons School course at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. They have been both deployed together and stationed at the same home base together, an opportunity not always granted to military couples.

Old rules would have grounded Lauren immediately, but in 2022, the Air Force implemented a new policy for aircrew members, allowing voluntary requests to fly during pregnancy. While no waiver is required to fly in the second trimester with an uncomplicated pregnancy in a non-ejection seat aircraft if all flight safety criteria are met, all pregnant aircrew members are required to apply for“I can’t over-express how amazing it is that pregnant women now have the opportunity to fly in all types of aircraft,” Lauren said.Despite loving what she does, Lauren recognizes her job doesn’t come without risk.

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