Posted on 04/11/2015 3:59:18 AM PDT by don-o
When military aviation buffs pack into the Marine Corps Beaufort Air Show in South Carolina, they'll be wowed by the Navy's Blue Angels. But a new kind of history will also take flight in the team: a woman in the cockpit. U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Katie Higgins is the first female pilot in the team's 69-year history. Michelle Miller took to the sky to see how Higgins got her wings.
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Spouting off as if you have proof when you clearly don’t is a tactic of the mentally weak.
What combat leader would not want to replace his man warriors with a shorter, lighter, weaker, sicklier, less aggressive, slower moving, more terrain limited, reduced distance traveling, hygienically vulnerable, smaller weight carrying, more prone to injury, version?
Sticker or not, the C-130 which flies support for the Blue Angels, NAVY flight demonstration team is "named" Fat Albert". It is not a designation for a group of aircraft, but it's OK if you Air Force types are jealous of a superior group of NAVY pilots and equipment!!!
Marines are part of the US Navy!
Ha. Not a chance. The Thunderbirds use a C-130 also, but I don't know what they call it. The last time I talked to the C-130 pilot, their call sign was Thunderbird 14. I always had the best view of the show, from the cat walk of the tower. 😄👌😏😀😃😆
Ha. Not a chance. -Mark
Yeah, I know how good the AF guys are at landing on aircraft carriers...
Part of the Department of the Navy (DON), the Men's Department.
BTW, say happy birthday to someone.
>>>”On looking at it again, the dominance of men in chess may very well illustrate actual mental differences between the sexes. I suspect it’s an example of the way men are much more diverse in mental characteristics than women.
While men and women are equal in average IQ, far more men are found on each end of the bell curve. Many more geniuses, and many more morons. The female IQ bell curve is taller and thinner.>
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Obviously, there are pure biological, physiological, and, as a rule, physical strength differences between men and women.
That said, women, traditionally, have been known to be able to endure physical pain more than men. For example, childbirth; being in labor for at time hours, without medication that we nowadays use.
However, in the so-called ‘mental capability’. It is not necessarily gender specific. It’s also related to the dominance and use of “left-brain, right-brain”, both in men and women. That’s one theory, which is viewed as quite valid by many psychologists.
In terms of “autism spectrum”, which you cited elsewhere in this thread, it is neither purely genetic nor gender-specific. Clinical psychologists are still unsure of what causes it, and why exactly there have been more men *reported & diagnosed* as autistic than females. It’s work in progress still, and, in recent yrs, there have been more cases of females reported and diagnosed as autistic.
The other factors affecting differences between men & women are: interest, and socialization (starting with one’s parents at home), then schooling, social environment (including the influence of one’s friends & even associates later in life).
Additionally, IQ tests, typically, assess (provide *an indication of*) a person’s ability (capability & skills) in limited ways, heavily dependent on *external factors* (socialization/environment/schooling). Usually, IQ tests assess spatial ability, verbal reasoning, numerical ability, and *some* variants of *cognitive ability* such as critical & lateral thinking.
That’s a main reason (organisational, industrial & even clinical psychologists on occasions) in the recent decade tend to increasingly administer “competency-based assessments” rather than rely on traditional IQ tests. The former actually evaluates *skill* and *capability*, identifying what can be developed, in terms of *skills* (provided there is interest).
In career choices, capability (defined as something you’re predisposed towards at birth) and skill (defined as something you have had the opportunity & interest to develop over time) are not only two separate things, but often complementary, even in being able to win in a chess championship against an opposite gender.
In conclusion, apart from obvious & clear biological, physiological and physical strength differences between men and women, gender-specific capability and skills, and contributing factors involve too many variables and still, clinically, work in progress.
Not Guilty!
Not Guilty!
Agreed.
I’m perfectly willing to concede the possibility that women have the potential to compete evenly on the chessboard. And in other traditionally male-dominated fields where physical factors don’t rule them out.
Recently watched a movie where the band of questers had the oblogatory female along. Since they apparently were able to recognize that having her be a swordsman was not practical, she was an archer.
The writers apparently not realizing that archery, at least in combat, is even more dependent on upper body strength than hand to hand combat. A male archer can pull a much heavier bow, and therefore shoot much farther and harder.
Some sex differences are just what they are.
Or should that be. “I will be your sammich.”
If you’re going to be anyway, you might as well volunteer.
Most of which characteristics are utterly irrelevant to flying a fighter.
It wasn’t intended to to be about flying a fighter, so your post is totally irrelevant to mine.
Touchy! Touchy! Aren’t you?
Sick and tired people who don’t have an intelligible point but want to shoot off their damned mouths anyway because something someone said pissed them off and they are hell bent on defending their idiocy.
You could drop acting the ass and address what I said, now.
“With all due respect to your husband, would you mind asking him how a plane with fly-by-wire flight controls needs to be “wrestled” with by the human pilot and not the computer? “
Ask the pilot of the damaged spy plane who landed it on a Chinese controlled field. It took every ounce of his strength and endurance to get the plane on the ground.
Heinlein said that in his novel "Starship Troopers". I went looking at actual research, and women had been doing much worse than men at enduring high g's, until they got a special G suit optimized for women, at which point they started equaling men. If, even with the special suit, they EXCEEDED men, I'm sure we would have heard about it.
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