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Mary Jennings Hegar

27/03/2017 GMT

The Female Pilot on the Frontline

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Mary Jennings Hegar survived being shot down by the Taliban.

Mary Jennings Hegar has not only flown dangerous search and rescue missions in Afghanistan, but she went on to campaign for greater equality for women in the American military.

Mary Jennings Hegar is a pioneering helicopter pilot from the US. She's flown dangerous search and rescue missions, exchanged fire with the Taliban in Afghanistan and campaigned for greater equality for women in the American military. She tells Anu Anand her story.

Erik Kwakkel is a Dutch book historian at Leiden University who deciphers doodles and scribbles in medieval manuscripts - he explains what they tell us about people who lived some 700 years ago.

Alejandro Hernandez Cardenas is a forensic odontologist working in the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez. He helps identify bodies through their dental records, but he's taken his work a step further by developing a special formula to rehydrate corpses, in order to reveal any lesions or birth marks that might help to identify them. Outlook's Irene Caselli reports with the support of the International Women’s Media Foundation.

Neil Hilborn is an American spoken word artist who suffers from both Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder. But Neil uses this as inspiration for his work. He spoke to Outlook's Olivia Cope about living with these conditions.

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