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[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Nice 135 crew, the one riding heard on the plumbers panels while very cute and all, looks to be not a day over 15.

I've crewed with many many pilots in my days and some of the best sticks have been female.

TMMT

[canuck_conservative]

Must tick off the Muslims to no end, knowing that they're being attacked by women! Ha!

[and the horse you rode in on]

PING

You gotta see this. They are recruiting pilots out of Junior High now.

[and the horse you rode in on]

BIG PING

[fnord]

yowza ... hot chicks with weaponry are such a turn-on

[Archangelsk]

some of the best sticks have been female.

And yet less than 10% of all pilots are female. Sorry, but an all female military crew is a recruiting poster and has nothing to do with reality. (For a real eye-opener, go to KEWR and try to find a female among the RJ and 73 pilots. Last time I was up there, there were none to be seen).

Last point and then I'm putting the asbestos MOPP suit on, the bane of many folks here is feminism and yet without the feminine movement there would be no conservative females in traditionally male occupations. Chew on that one for awhile.

[billorites]

I teach in a Part 141 professional pilot school.

One of our senior instructors is a woman who's maybe 23 - 24 years old and very, very cute.

When she gives checkrides to young men, or old ones for that matter, the checkride candidates are distracted, flustered and generally discombobulated.

It's fun to watch.

[Archangelsk]

A 135 is a tanker, they ain't attacking anything, and I bet there's a grizzled CMSG in the back handling the boom.

[ErnBatavia]

Coffee, tea, or me??

[fnord]

The dimpled warrior (bottom left) is particularly interesting ... she knows something I bet

Semper Fi to these ladies - go get 'em

[lodwick]

bttt

[Archangelsk]

It's fun to watch.

You mean someone doing end-of-course actually lets an observer come along for the ride? I'd pass that individual on the spot (provided he/she doesn't get me killed) for having the guts to do that. :-)

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Cute gas passers.

[Balata]

WOW! I've spent many hours in a cockpit, but never saw one like that.:)

[fnord]

lol

[RightOnline]

I'm an old tanker driver myself (about 1800 hours in the KC-135), from '78 - '84. I flew with the first female aircraft commander in SAC, the first Instructor Nav in SAC, and some of the first female boom operators (and, of course, other lady pilots in the right seat). Never saw an all female crew in that day, but a few missions came close to all female crews.

Hats off to 'em, and here's to safe flying and kicking major Iraqi butt.

And ladies, never forget the three Primary Rules of Flying: Don't fly at night, don't fly in the weather, and don't f**k with the red-guarded switches. :)

[Moose4]

Wow. Put that up as a recruiting poster and the USAF will have more applicants for slots on tankers than they'll know what to do with. :)

}:-)4

[canuck_conservative]

You're right, of course. (Didn't they used to call it a KC-135?)

I meant in the larger sense, women are part of the Allied war effort, and I'm sure there's SOME females in combat roles (air and ground).

And for a culture that prefers to treat women like dirt, that must really stick in their craw.

[Bedford Forrest]

That isn't a cockpit, it's a seraglio.

[LasVegasMac]

end-of-course

Remember when / why they had to change that phrase?

Commercial air wishes they had cockpits that looked like this! Wow!

Get 'em, ladies!

LVM