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Air Force Sacks First Female To Lead A Fighter Demonstration Team After Just Two Weeks
The War Zone ^ | FEBRUARY 12, 2019 | BY TYLER ROGOWAY

Posted on 02/12/2019 1:18:15 PM PST by Yo-Yo

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To: NorthMountain

I doubt the T-birds would photoshop on their own website so I guess it’s so.
The only way I would think they could pull it off is if they engaged the autopilot and employed a distance sensing radar that kept them exactly a certain distance apart.


41 posted on 02/12/2019 2:12:46 PM PST by Ronald_Magnus
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To: carriage_hill

LMAO!!!


42 posted on 02/12/2019 2:13:20 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON)
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To: Ronald_Magnus; elcid1970
Videos of the Reflection Pass ... reveal how they pull it off. No autopilot or RADAR required.
43 posted on 02/12/2019 2:19:30 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Gulf War One

Yep. My first thought.


44 posted on 02/12/2019 2:22:25 PM PST by SIDENET
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To: elcid1970

For clarity, this is the solo F16 demo that goes to airshows to fly a demo in the F16. Maj Rains flew the demo last year and rotated out as scheduled. This isn’t the Thunderbird team. Maj Rains has been asked to return to this assignment to minimize any delays in the show schedule.
There is no doubt that the female pilot had the piloting skills for this job as she was already practiced up and certified for the show. Whatever happened must have been on the personal side. No doubt the decision to fire her went all the way to the Secretary of the AF for review. Must be pretty bad.


45 posted on 02/12/2019 2:28:02 PM PST by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!)
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To: NorthMountain

Ok from what I gathered, the planes aren’t directly over each other. They’re offset enough for them to see each other.

Child’s play.

Just kidding.


46 posted on 02/12/2019 2:31:32 PM PST by Ronald_Magnus
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To: Ronald_Magnus

Yeah, that’s what I get from the videos, too. Very difficult, but not impossible. I’d guess that the offset is just enough (but no more) for them to see each other over the lip of the cockpit. I wonder if you could do that “for real” using the all-around sensors on the F-35.


47 posted on 02/12/2019 2:34:42 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Yo-Yo
"Captain Zoe Kotnik, the first women to..."

I can't believe how often I see that grammatical error today. It's epidemic.

48 posted on 02/12/2019 2:36:51 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: bramps
They found out that’s she’s heterosexual?

Or they found out she's a he.

49 posted on 02/12/2019 2:43:18 PM PST by grobdriver (BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
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To: PilotDave

Command rotation. I dig it now.

Something going down in the canoodling department? She does have kind of a she-wolf lusty look.


50 posted on 02/12/2019 2:45:21 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: Yo-Yo

NOT GUILTY


51 posted on 02/12/2019 3:00:30 PM PST by Wu (Excuse me while I kiss the sky......)
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To: carriage_hill
That's what I thought. The fact that she was "very active" on Instagram communicating with tens of thousands of followers tells me her focus was probably not where it should have been.

Will not be surprised if that turns out to be the reason.

52 posted on 02/12/2019 3:08:47 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: carriage_hill

Farding!


53 posted on 02/12/2019 3:09:05 PM PST by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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While I have reservations about women in combat roles, I respect her decision to serve her country and imagine she was a hell of a pilot to get the position in the first place. It is truly tragic for her career, her personally and all her family that was certainly proud of her achievement especially with their own air shop and pilot heritage.

Thanks for your service young lady and I hope you overcome such a public event.


54 posted on 02/12/2019 3:13:07 PM PST by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Ronald_Magnus

Thunderbirds tradition. The ‘5’ is upside down on the aircraft, because the lead solo spends so much time inverted. I think the ‘5’ is even upside down on the pilot’s flight suit.


55 posted on 02/12/2019 3:17:59 PM PST by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: Gulf War One

what’s left. Gay is fine, Tranny is fine. Short of being a Pedo what’s not on the table now?


56 posted on 02/12/2019 3:39:12 PM PST by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Ronald_Magnus

The latter latter, no schmuck. :-)


57 posted on 02/12/2019 3:44:50 PM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: PapaBear3625

Perhaps she wouldn’t put out for the good Colonel..


58 posted on 02/12/2019 3:47:05 PM PST by AFret.
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To: Yo-Yo

Col. O’malley either has big brass ones or didn’t do this on his own.


59 posted on 02/12/2019 3:55:25 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: AFret.

I doubt it. In today’s environment, if a lowly Colonel even suggested dating a female Capt he has ANY career influence over, he would be out.


60 posted on 02/12/2019 3:59:41 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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