Charley,
There are no lack of women already engaged in what were previously almost exclusively men's activities. There are female race car drivers, motorcycle racers, tennis players, golf players - yes even aerobatic pilots. But generally
they have their own class tournaments etc. Why? Because overall
they can not compete with men on equal footing - even in activities where disparity of physical strength is not significant.
Running or owning a business, tending a bar etc are not the kind of activities where gender disparities are going to be signficant.
I agree, NASCAR is largely under the reins of corporate interests.
Handy
The Safety Center promises a type of confidentiality in exchange for utter truth on the part of the mishap crew. Nothing they tell the Safety investigators is tied directly to them so it can't be used in a Jag investigation. I'm familiar with this process from having conducted two mishap investigations.
That is interesting; so how does that fit in where a pilot or other crew member may have been negligent or reckless in their actions leading to a mishap? And this is assuming that the crew are alive to talk about it for that matter.
I can only tell you, AGAIN, that the number of crashes per year is so small that it is quite easy to account for them. I note that you are switching gear, since your original premise was that women weren't good for fighter pilots - so I asked senior fighter people. As you know, women have been piloting helos and transport aircraft since the early '80s, and no one considered publishing a book about their supposed failures
My original premise is that they are not on the same level as male pilots - hence an un-necessary increased liability. Every search for data on web from institutional sources I have tried has met with a stone wall. You either need to be a "member" or a search of site archives just returns a "no results". But apparently in commercial airline industry the female to male pilot accident ratio rate is four to one and that has the been published in some journals.
Actually women have been piloting helos and fixed wing aircraft almost since they were respectively introduced into general aviation. They have also seen much wartime service in roles such as ferry pilots.
I do not know how many books have been published on the relative safety record of male versus female pilots either.
The fact is, motorcycles take alot of shoulder strength to throw around, and race cars and airplanes do not. And there are competitive females in race cars - competing against men (your knowledge of racing and the Navy being equal).
On point one you are wrong. I have many thousands of miles on bikes weighing about 700 lbs dry on down. Motorcycle riding - especially racing - requires more judgement, mental skills and hand-eye coordination than anything else. In fact the skills involved in riding a motorcycle are perhaps closer than most anything else on terra firma to actually flying a plane.
There are women in motorcycle racing - plenty of them on the club level. But you will not see them competing favorably against men on the professional circuits, let alone the most demanding road courses like the Isle of Man TT.
As far as these "physiological differences" you know so much about, you're of course aware that the female circulatory system is ultimately better for resisting G forces, right?
Could well be. There are a long list of charactaristics in which the sexes differ.
In a very few instances, upper body strength could play a role. Last year an A-10 pilot in Iraq had a total hydraulic failure. Against the book, the pilot decided to try and save the plane by landing it, despite the extremely heavy stick pressures needed to control the plane. The pilot was successful.
Oh, and she was tall, thin and blond.
Good for her; and she breaks the mould - statistically female pilots are apparently
less likely to try and fly and aircraft with known defects.
So please drop this crap, since you don't have a leg to stand on. This is starting to become like a conversation about race with a phrenologist. You don't have any facts to back up this wrong-headed notion that women are poor pilots. I have all the facts that support them being no worse then men.
Drop it anytime you please. Human psychology, physiology, and the statistics in the commercial aviation realm do not seem to support your point of view. I have a hard time accepting that they are any better at flying high performance jet fighters, and I have been unable to uncover any official Navy (or other service branch) data to the contrary.
