Millie Limbaugh
Posted on 04/19/2018 12:55:30 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: There’s an op-ed in the Washington Post today. It’s by Beverly Weintraub. And the headline: “‘Sully’ Was Just a Hero. Why Label the Southwest Captain a ‘Female Pilot’?” Beverly Weintraub — by the way, this is cool. She’s a Pulitzer Prize winner, member of the New York Daily News editorial board. She’s a member of the Ninety-Nines. Do you know what that is? You probably don’t. It’s an international organization of women pilots.
Millie Limbaugh
And she’s on the board of directors of the Air Race Classic. My mom was a Ninety-Nine. (interruption) Yeah, my mom was a pilot. We had an old Cessna 182 Skylane for a few years when I was growing up, and my mom learned to fly the thing — and she was good. And, you know, my dad — in addition to being a lawyer — was heavily involved in aviation. He loved it. And the Ninety-Nines do this every year. I don’t know if they still do. But they did a national race of women pilots racing Left Coast to Right Coast.
And they would stop — all of them stop — at various airports across the country, and Cape Girardeau with a little… (chuckles) Well, I think we had the new runway. Anyway, we had a 3,000-foot runway and here they come. These are single-engine, maybe twin-engine, but they’re not jets. And they’re women pilots. Maybe their husbands are with them, maybe a female copilot or whatever, and they’d fly in. Every year we’d go out there and meet ’em and various members of the town would meet ’em.
We’d take ’em all to dinner the night they spent overnight and then take ’em back to the airport the next day and wave at ’em as they took off on the next leg of the race. The Ninety-Nines! I haven’t heard of the Ninety-Nines since… It’s been 25 years since anybody talked about the Ninety-Nines. Beverly Weintraub is a Ninety-Nine. So I just had to point that out. Anyway, she’s upset that the… By the way, we didn’t refer here to the pilot of the Southwest jet as a woman.
I think I referred to her yesterday as “a bad ass pilot.” But Beverly Weintraub is upset… Captain Sully, the guy that landed the U.S. Airways jet right there in the Hudson River? Nobody called him “male pilot.” They just called him a “pilot.” Why do we call this babe “female pilot”? Why do we have on to put “female” in front of it? Well, you can take a stab at answering that yourself. What do you think the reason is, Mr. Snerdley? Do you think sexism is the reason why “female” — and, by the way, it’s the Drive-By Media that did it.
It’s not… She not lashing out at any particular group. It was throughout the media that the “woman pilot” was referred to just like that: A “woman” pilot or “female” pilot. I think it has to do with the numbers. There aren’t nearly as many female airline pilots today as there are male, and the number of female pilots who successfully navigate problems in the air and safely land a plane that’s under distress, it’s not very many. So it’s unique.
But I don’t think anybody means anything by it, do you? I don’t think anybody was… Nobody was cutting her down. Nobody was certainly not affording her respect. I think the fact that she was identified as “a female pilot” actually was intended as a… I don’t want to say “compliment,” but I think it’s pretty close to that. It certainly wasn’t to impugn, and I don’t think it was to belittle. But it is a sign of the sensitivity that is out there.
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Not that big a deal.
Anytime there is something structurally wrong with the jet, from icing on the wing to a bird strike, to a loss of an engine, you are flying a “test aircraft.”
The pilot flies the jet. Those flight control inputs are assisted by the flight computer, so it is not like the pilot is wrestling a jet with direct stick-and-rudder cable inputs requiring super-human strength.
Exciting, yes, but hardly heroic in this case.
(I’ve had my share of IFE’s and such and you fly the jet, take care of business, and land when able. Drink beer at the club later.)
She's offended that the pilot was referred to as a female pilot
She would have been offended if she had not been referred to as a female pilot. Some people cannot be pleased.
She's offended that the pilot was referred to as a female pilot
She would have been offended if she had not been referred to as a female pilot. Some people cannot be pleased.
and lack of upper-body strength makes twisting and turning your body in a dogfight much more difficult for females.
I hear Sully talking on the radio while he was flying his airplane.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLFZTzR5u84
How about bum bitch ho
Amen. Exactly.
I was going to say something quite similar, my good FRiend, but your comment was most cogent and correct.
Yeah, the condition of the aircraft was akin to losing half the wing. Waiting for the investigation to explain why they didn’t lose flaps/control surfaces/ tailplane etc...with that big piece of cowling hanging out it must have been on the razor’s edge of losing control...jury’s still out but my vote is on saved by Navy skillz...
If women were meant to be pilots, they’d have called it a box office, not a cockpit.
Get your mind out of the gutter.
Unfortunately, women still represent a small number of the total pilots (6% according to this article: https://www.wai.org/resources/waistats ) and, I suppose, according to this “journalist”, are in so small a number as to still constitute a novelty. Maybe she should go up for an introductory flight with a female pilot (sorry) and maybe she would change her tune.
A school friend of mine was a Stewardess for Pan AM-
I supported the training of fighter pilots for eight years. Weapons trainers operations, flight simulators, and this also included operating debriefing stations while top gun instructors replayed ACM engagements with students. Some times I flew aggressor aircraft simulated ACM from a console with a god's eye view (advantage) against the pilot in the cockpit. With HUD and HOTAS physical strength is a non issue. Scan rate of the cockpit and visual displays is primary and understanding the situational awareness is paramount. Most all pilots are trained to keep up their energy and egress as soon as possible without getting down into the weeds. If this is not possible and a close engagement ensues if you have to twist and turn in the cockpit you are already at a disadvantage. In a scissors type fight it is not physical strength thats saves you it is keeping your head and knowing your aircrafts limits and turn rate vs. your opponents aircraft capability. Nearly all kills in the Iraq war were BVR. That was in the 1990's. 25 years later stealth technology means you kill your enemy before they even knew you were there. Twisting and turning in the cockpit is North Korean air war tactics in 1'st generation and 2'nd generations fighters and we are flying 5'th generation and beyond equipment.
Your darn tootin’. Land sake’s now I’m offended that everyone is offended at something that I’m even offended at myself!
+1
Rush’s mother was a genteel SOUTHERN lady
Why does Rush talk like a yankee.
David speaks southern too as do most southern Missouri folks I know
Don’t dare tell them they are Yankees they take it. About as well as Kentuckians do
I’m a 24/7 btw
I’m in Chicago as we speak...people talk funny here
Friendlythough for such a huge place
“Why does Rush talk like a yankee.”
Worse than that he often thinks like one... Pretty sure that he worked at losing whatever accent he had growing up.
Leonard Skutnik is indeed a real hero. As was “the man in the water” who kept passing the life ring to others and who slipped under the Potomac ice before he could be rescued. His name was Arland D. Williams Jr., a bank examiner with the Atlanta Fed. This year I discovered that Leonard Skutnik attended jr high with me, a class behind me.
Because he's an American?
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