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WOW. All of one?! As opposed to the guys who regularly turn cartwheels across the flight deck or who go into vertical climbs to impress their parents on their way out of Millington?

from what I hear John McCain was a "limited talent" pilot, who wouldn't have seen pilots wings, let alone combat, except for his connections.

Female pilots may actually have some advantages over men in high G situations, physiologically, and it is yet to be proven, one way or the other, how they will do psychologically.

Now, I'm not particularly aware of any problems with vertical climb outs from Millington. Doesn't mean they don't happen, or didn't in the past. However, the most recent such incident I'm aware of that was in Tennessee, was, I think, an F-14 leaving Nashville, wasn't it? That one just augered in, what, about 2 years ago? He was doing a viking takeoff to impress the folks and lost an engine, or ingested a bird, or both.

Female pilots may actually have some advantages over men in high G situations, physiologically, and it is yet to be proven, one way or the other, how they will do psychologically.

Cannot speak for the AF, but female aviators in the Navy have had a problem with aggresiveness. Too much thinking, defensive instead of offensive initiative. This goes for not only combat situations, but in staying ahead of the airplane. Women do much better in Hornets than they do in Tomcats because anticipation of what the airplane will do is not required, while the Tomcat can have a mind of it's own. Short, compact bodies do have a small G advantage.

In the case of the crash in Nashville, that was a guy named Stacy Bates, who was already under scrutiny, because he had already wrecked a Tomcat off of Hawaii. He was very good and aggresive in the air, but not safe. He stalled an engine coming over the top, and stayed in a dive trying to get a re-light. He stayed with the aircraft too long, knowing that if he wrecked a second Tomcat, he was done as a pilot.

He came from the Navy's worst squadron at that time, VF-213; the same squadron as Lt. Hultgren.

"Female pilots may actually have some advantages over men in high G situations, physiologically, and it is yet to be proven, one way or the other, how they will do psychologically."

Do they have advantages over Men in High S[tress] situations?

Just had to drop that one in there.

When I was younger I shot a drunk and armed intruder coming into my parents home. My Mom & Sister completely lost it!! I mean lost it...running through the house screaming and crying...LOL...I actually had to walk into the kitchen and phone 911 in order to get the ball rolling. Mind you, my Mother is married to a former Recon Marine and she herself is in charge of nationwide distribution for a Forbes 500 company. She's a pitbull. But when it got overwhelmingly salient...she went dramaqueen.

There isnt a test on the planet or any amount of statistical results that'll remove "my impression of women under stressful situations" from my head. They're just not wired for it, and no amount of slanted discussion or impure data is ever gonna change that.