I know Blue, so was I.....:(

Unfortunately, my thread was hijacked for the purposes of intellectual discussion and reasoned debate......GITS!

Come on, there has to be some piccies of Grobag Totty somewhere :D

OK, so she may not be a pilot but .......

Good God, I wish she was on my unit .

:D

http://militaryphoto.com/No%20MR%20Women/3272.jpg

Guys, in honour of Albino (if that is her name) we owe it to the women of the world's military to form a Fan Club in her name, with silly competitions, awards, a pornography exchange, honorary blow-up dolls, and all sorts of other banal, childish, testosterone-driven stuff.

Whaddaya say? It would be a mark of respect, at the very least.

I'm with you Blue, she's a babe.........

Wonder if I can find anymore babes........

:D

You and your female crew mate are shot down and are both captured.

Both are tortured in front of each other.

What would you do.



seriously.......

LJR, could you rephrase that, it lost something in translation...

...Still looking for GrobagGirlies....:D

LJR

Join in ??

(sorry);)

LJR;
Probably be in excruciating pain, babbling frequencies and the like out as fast as i could, certainly faster than she could, and wishing they would leave me alone. Ever seen 1984 with John Hurt?, or more to the point, ever been interrogated?

The moment they reached for the alligator clips, I'd be screaming for the shorthand secretary....

As Richard Pryor said

"If you ever get into trouble, and there's more of them than you....RUUUUUUUUUNNNNNN, and teach your wife or girlfriend to run too. That way, you don't have to go back and rescue her ass"

Mil female flyers
 

To add to kilo52's post of 11/26/02, I'll second that; said female demonstrated abilities and competence first as a fast jet Jengo(a not un-challenging assignment) before becoming one of first femme pilots.
Unfazed,knowledgeable,competent (and damn nice pins/bodaceous),I'd rather have her as PIC than a lot of the didlos I knew in my 'career' in the service. She may be flying you to your next vacation destination...
As to the gender issue, it's just a reprise of what's gone before (race,physical fitness/whatever); though it's an interesting and amusing subject, for sure some folks are challenged by incorp of women in trad male roles- lack of self-confidence ?!

Laidbak - nicely put!

Mil/civvy aviatrixes(aviatreex?)
 

Just getting started on the rant now...this is fun...

Lotsa good posts here, incl. (presumably deliberate) outrageous ones. Having reviewed such:

1) Upper body strength : n/a, n/r. Be honest- are you in shape ? My feeling is in corpore sana, mens sana (mangled Latin,it's been a while). But I knew a lot of very competent 'slugs' on the squadrons ; lardbutts/jiggly upper thoraxes didn't appear to interfere with the job. As to getting downed and ability to perform E & E, that's a personal choice, just as female aircrew accepting consequences of such. As regards handling morts,ever heard of MASH nurses/doctors?
2) As was eloquently pointed out previously, we are the free world- discrimination here makes us no better than 'paternalistic' cultures viz Islam etcetera.
3)Ability is prime and sole consideration. As a 'colonial' I was recipient of a fair amount of discrimination going thru training machine (by the way it's bhundu/bundu not bondu)- didn't speak right etcetera. There were, and surely still are a few guys on the squadron who could barely cut it- how did they get thru? Has there always been a quota for incompetent male doofae as well?

F.I.D.O.

Two equally interesting threads running here.
For the first I would just say that there is a female pilot i used to serve with that i would far rather have with me in an escape and evasion scenario than, for example, any crab wuss I have met, and for the second, Who else remembers the US F-15 Pilot called Fifi that displayed at Kokside Airshow in Belgium a few years ago. Now she was charming. Bit of an attitude though:rolleyes: ;)