The media probably don’t know what the W.A.S.s were in WWII or even why the Luftwaffe feared the Rusian Night HEXs so much.
This gal was the co not the captain. We don’t even know his name
journalists.
I don’t think it’s offensive at all - statistically, a military or commercial pilot is more likely to be male, so mentioning it’s a female pilot doesn’t seem that outrageous.
Wow she is offended by her own gender!
Such irony!
Tammy is a good pilot. I recall when she came though the flight simulators and weapons trainers at NAS Lemoore training squadron VFA125. Easy to remember because she was among the first women through the program. While a few pilots had the same attitude described in the comments, most treated her as an equal. Working for Hughes Aircraft and operating the simulators at the time we had a unique perspective. Pilots would say things in front of us they would not normally say in front of other officers. We overheard a lot of crosstalk among pilots. Most acknowledged her ability and discredited quickly anyone that made derogatory statements.
3 or 4 years later during the same time frame the Tailhook scandal broke when another female Naval aviator ( Helicopter Pilot) who was an Admirals aid and mistreated in Las Vegas became news and caused the Navy much embarrassment when the story broke. It cost the career of the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations. The story only broke because the Admirals aid was one of the women mistreated in the hotel and it was not going to be white washed away this time. It was a sea change moment. When the aid was visiting NAS Lemoore and allowed to fly the F/A-18 simulator I recall after she left the simulator one day the next group of pilots identified who she was. While one pilot made fun of her I watched him get a dressing down by several other pilots pointing out you salute the bars and not the person. All pilots are the same and you judge a pilot by their skill and not their haircut. Oddly women are actually situated to tolerate G forces an little better than men. Short stalky muscular people tend to have blood flow to the brain better under G loading. Height is a negative factor and weight a positive factor. A highly fit women statistically has a slightly higher G tolerance than a man of the same weight but much taller.
Whatever.
There’s a difference between using words as descriptions and using them derogatorily. “The black man sat next to the white guitarist as the female vocalist excited the crowd.” There is nothing racist or sexist about using descriptive terms.
If you swear, then that’s derogatory and racist or sexist. People are way too sensitive today. I’m not sure what the point is of being so super-sensitive.
I also find it unnecessary to say someone is "female" or "Christian" or a "boy scout" when something bad happens because you know those terms are used to belittle and deride, not descriptive...
Female pilots fly the aircraft while doing their hair and makeup.....
“”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. “”
He answered the question the only way possible...Unique and rare - that’s female pilots. Why do the military ones always get referred to as “female”? Same reason...
She’s an “Aviator”. Nuff said.
This irony is probably lost on ole Bev due to her "outrage" of labeling women...women.
Eight decades after Amelia Earhart made history, let's celebrate today's women pilots
Not to mention...she and her partner recently crashed an airplane...(partner was pilot, she was passenger of co-owned aeroplane).
NTSB: Fuel issue, loss of engine power led to plane crash-landing in Meriden last month
Pilot. Not woman pilot. Agreed.
I guess not all snowflakes are college students. I doubt that many males are fascinated by by hero pilots just because they are females.
The interest factor is entirely due to fact that there are so few of them. Not every human has the abitities to become a competent one. The newsworthiness is the rarity, not the sex.
I am not female but I have always envied pilots who are able to dominate monster aircraft like the 747.
When the news circulated that there were a half dozen female pilots who routinely fly C5As worlwide for the Air Force I made it a point of finding videos of them doing their jobs, and wishing that I had had the right stuff to even try.
The fact that thousands of men do the same thing, just doesn't seem as newsworthy to me.
The author is offended that the pilot was recognized in the press as a female pilot.
The author also belongs to a club that is only for female pilots.
Are logical disconnects a female thing? /s
If women were meant to be pilots, they’d have called it a box office, not a cockpit.
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.
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