<p>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.<br />Later, she opened her parachute and had a safe, normal landing on the ground below as hundreds of assembled people clapped and cheered her.<br /><br />"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.<br /><br />Describing her experience, she said: "It was too great to describe in words."<br /><br />"I got to know how birds can fly in the air and I am really happy that I did it successfully," she said.<br /><br />Shital, born and brought up in Pune, is no stranger to creating records around the world.<br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />These two records, Shital said, make her the only woman in the world to have jumped over the earth's both poles.<br /><br />Shital and her husband Vaibhav Rane set another record April 19, 2008, by wedding in a hot air balloon, India's first.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />After their marriage, Shital and Vaibhav Rane have settled in Finland and the couple has a pair of twins.</p>
<p>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.<br />Later, she opened her parachute and had a safe, normal landing on the ground below as hundreds of assembled people clapped and cheered her.<br /><br />"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.<br /><br />Describing her experience, she said: "It was too great to describe in words."<br /><br />"I got to know how birds can fly in the air and I am really happy that I did it successfully," she said.<br /><br />Shital, born and brought up in Pune, is no stranger to creating records around the world.<br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />These two records, Shital said, make her the only woman in the world to have jumped over the earth's both poles.<br /><br />Shital and her husband Vaibhav Rane set another record April 19, 2008, by wedding in a hot air balloon, India's first.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />After their marriage, Shital and Vaibhav Rane have settled in Finland and the couple has a pair of twins.</p>