“My husband is a retired master mechanic in the Air Force. He told me that the dirty little secret was that woman pilots were four times more likely to crash then men.”
Uh huh.
RIGHT NOW, after massive efforts to increase the numbers of women in the cockpits, women are about 6.5% of all the USAF Pilots. Thirty years ago it’d have been even worse, right? So i really, really doubt one mechanic saw enough women pilots to build up a dependable sample size to make such a calculation
However, I find it wonderfully easy to think that any time one woman had a problem, it got 100x as much attention as a man doing the same thing. Saw this exact thing in the Navy. Sexists gotta sexist. When there were NO WOMEN AT ALL on the subs, submarine sailors were sure that Female diving officers would broach the ship far more often than the dumbest males.
"Now this was 20 years ago. I see no reason why this might be different. He claims no one really knew what the reason was.”
Okay, this is proof it’s fucking bullshit.
Planes are fucking expensive. Training for pilots is expensive. If a component was 4x as likely to cost us a plane, there’d be so many investigations to track down every possible contributing factor and isolate THE THING causing the crashes. If they tended to be too short, the mechanic would know that the seats in a woman’s jet had to be lifted. Or whatever else they deemed necessary. Because we have to meet our manning goals AND stop losing planes. The only way it would remain a mystery is if it NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED!
“Not to mention she simply is not physically strong enough to withstand the G forces. She will pass out before a man.”
No, they don’t. Women’s bodies tend to be much better as pilots. Smaller, more compact, faster reflexes, can take higher G’s, and their oxygen lasts longer.
“Of course there is also the problem of intuitive fighting; women don’t seem to have it.”
I can see you’ve never forgotten to tip the stripper.