[usmcobra]

Do you know anything about modern flight controls because I do?

There isn't a man alive that can control a Modern fighter aircraft or helicopter that has lost a total lost of flight controls so the whole argument about upper body strength is mute.

The fight controls on modern military aircraft activate control valves for Hydraulic servos or in the case of Fly by wire flight controls electronic sensors that are used to activate those servos electronically.

The first female F-14 pilot suffered from political correctness at it's worst, she was poorly trained and ill equipped mentally for the job given her. In the effort to ensure her success The Navy under pressure from the very top of the chain of command overlooked her performance as a pilot until it took her life. Had she been treated as any other pilot she would have been grounded for her poor skills. It happens all the time to men with similiar abilities.

[Michael121]

The flight controls were not what had been failing on the F-14 it was the engines. They would cut out that is why the were replaced. But they cannot all be replaced at the same time. They were phased in. So it was just a heavy stick not loss of total control.