A little something to mull over for International Women’s Day…yes, it’s THAT day today…
9 Amazing Female Aviators You Should Know About
Not bad….but still some way to go, sistas!
We’ll only really be there if we even do not bother to check a persons gender. So whether these pilots are/were female or not – I really don’t care.
PS my own support was to divert from traditional role patterns by sweeping and mopping the house today – and that in brilliant flying weather, too! But I’ve too bad a cold to go flying anyway, more’s the pity.
The bottom line, guys, is that it is now 0930 UTC so you have missed your chance to take your gurl out for a nice surprise dinner, which might have made her more likely to fly with you
@Jan, that’s a worthy goal, but the way to get there is to get women interested in the fields where they’re underrepresented, and the best way to do that is for them to have role models.
It seems like aviation is like the computer science department at university; it attracts very few ladies. Therefore, when one shows up, the rest of us get all excited. I should know since I was a student in computer science and that is where I met my wife
Among female aviators I can think of, apart from the obvious:
Air France has 7% female pilots.
Rumouredly, female pilots withstand G forces better than their male counterparts. Cannot remember the source.
In France female pilots have their own club.
And of course
Svetlana Kapanina, Patty Wagstaf and many others
If there is a man or female in the captain seat of an airliner, I couldn’t care less.
In France female pilots have their own club.
which seems to me gender discriminating and thus illegal. Or it ought to be.
If there is a man or female in the captain seat of an airliner, I couldn’t care less.
I agree BUT what does worry me is when I see the flight deck crew looking so very YOUNG. Perhaps it is my old age that thinks of them that way.