Also despite TopGun and other movies, it is not sheer guts that matters, it is the mindset that deeply understand the machine and it’s envelope, and can execute procedures accurately and aggressively. Very few women function well under extreme stress, men do. Women function better in a methodical environment.
This is the reason men historically were CEOs and had a female secretary. Horses for courses.
That “mindset” thing is key and not everyone can do it. Having operated numerous kinds of high performance, powerful, machinery I call it wearing, or putting on the machine. Even when I climb into a backhoe there is a few seconds when my head shifts to wearing that machine, realizing that my every move is going to relocate something big. 100 or 1,000 horsepower in a pinky finger requires certain adjustment.