Posted on 11/16/2007 3:42:10 PM PST by lizol
Female boxer-turned-jet fighter pilot 16.11.2007
World Boxing Champion Agnieszka Rylik has become the first Polish woman to fly a F-16 jet fighter. The flight lasted 1.5 hour and took place in the Krzesiny airbase near Poznań, western Poland. The sportswoman had to undergo a several-day long medical check-up in the Military Institute of Aviation Medicine in Warsaw. She flew with lieutenant colonel Dariusz Malinowski, an experienced pilot who was among the first Poles trained in the United States, with hundreds of hours in F-16 to his credit. The F-16 with Agnieszka Rylik on board reached the speed of 2000 kms per hour.
I love strong women.............
You ‘hit that’ and she might hit you back.
I was hoping for a little more uncoverage. LOL
Good for her. I keep saying I like what I see coming out of Poland these days, and it keeps on coming. Glad to see it.
“I find it amusing that the instructions and other words printed on
the plane are written in English.”
I’ve been told that French was slated to become the “international
language” of air transit/transportation prior to WWII.
But then WWII happened, the French lost, and airports on
many points of the globe just gravitated to English with all the
American and Commonwealth pilots/crews.
Being a loser in a world war does have consequences.
Even when old friends bleed in order to rescue you.
Damn, that just isn’t right. They should have Spanish on their too. LOL
Good point...
You definitely would not want to piss her off!
Looks like her sponsor is “SuperFish”. LOL
SpankenTruppen.
I recruit, Snippy decides.
I made it a personal rule never to date a chick who could kick my ass.
Thank God for that else everyone in the air industry would go around sounding like Tatu: “Les Plane, Les Plane!”
You'd probably enjoy the rasslin' match, but you (or I) would lose the fist fight.
She could whup your (our) butt.
Beautiful woman - handsome plane but I have a question; is the F-16 modified? The plane's outline looks different. If it is, do you have any idea what purpose the modification serves?
Niner for nine in english because nine in German is "no" etc...
It appears to have the extended-range conformal fuel tanks like the F-16I.
She could walk you home, so you’d feel safe :-)))
The F-16 is normally a single-seater. Perhaps this is a two-seat training variant. It also looks like they've added the two large pods just aft of the cockpit. Those aren't on any F-16 that I've ever seen.
It’s the F-16I configuration - dorsal conformal fuel tanks for extended range, and a new dorsal spine structure for more modern avionics and additional mission electronics.
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