[1][2] Bonde was brought up in Billund, Jylland, in a traditional Danish family where her father was the main salary earner while her mother worked half-time and took care of the home and her two daughters.

Once she took part in a trial flight in a Danish Air Force Hercules, she knew she was destined to become a pilot.

[3] She failed her first test, not because of the physical or theoretical aspects but simply because the examining psychologist thought she knew too little about flying.

She then spent two years at officers school followed by 16 months in the United States where she earned her wings after completing a course at the Sheppard Air Force Base under the EURO-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training programme.

[4] At the beginning of 2006, she returned to Denmark to serve at the Fighter Wing Skrydstrup air force base.