Women are better pilots than men

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:42:22 -0500, Greg Copeland
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:10:12 +0000, Larry Dighera wrote:

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 11:05:42 -0500, Greg Copeland
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On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 02:35:17 -0700, Nathalie Hutt wrote:

Men are too dumb to fly, they will think of their penises all the time
and crash into mountains.Women are far more skilled and not driven by
small "joysticks".

I thought women were the reason men fly into moutains.



Are you referring to the USAF fighter jock who crashed into a mountain
in the Rockies a few years back?

Are you being serious or is there a punchline coming up next?


IIRC, it was the late '90s. The airman was despondent over family
issues, apparently intentionally CFIT, and the location of the
mountainous crash site (and the on-board ordnance) was delayed due to
the winter weather. Nothing funny about it.

Greg Copeland wrote:

I thought women were the reason men fly into moutains.

There actually was a fairly famous case is the 50's involving a movie star. Nobeody
could figure out why the very experienced pilot took a wrong course out of Vegas into
terrain. Somebody finally figured out that he probably turned the plane over to his
rookie co-pilot and went back to smooze with the movie star.

George Patterson
This marriage is off to a shaky start. The groom just asked the band to
play "Your cheatin' heart", and the bride just requested "Don't come home
a'drinkin' with lovin' on your mind".

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There actually was a fairly famous case is the 50's involving a movie star. Nobeody
could figure out why the very experienced pilot took a wrong course out of Vegas into
terrain. Somebody finally figured out that he probably turned the plane over to his
rookie co-pilot and went back to smooze with the movie star.

It was in 1942. Carol Lombard (wife of Clark Gable) and her mother
were killed in the crash outside of Las Vegas. The plane was
inexplicably 6.7 miles off the beam on a CAVU night. One of the
theories was that the pilot was back in the cabin visiting and that
the co-pilot screwed up. Other theories were that the radio beam was
not accurate, as the Army had been messing around with them recently
for security reasons (like a bunch of Japanese bombers were going to
suddenly appear and home in on Las Vegas).

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)