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Air Show Training Crash takes life of China's first female fighter pilot
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:33 am
by cgzro
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/asia/chin ... index.html
Two percent has no politics or gender.
I doubt its easy getting into that seat in China. Likely one very smart hard working woman.
Re: Air Show Training Crash takes life of China's first female fighter pilot
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2016 2:37 pm
by Colonel
Formation aerobatics - especially close to the ground
requires exceptionally high levels of skill and judgement
if you are going to live very long.
It is terribly unforgiving of minor mistakes that other
kinds of aviation will happily tolerate.
Unfortunately this skill and judgement cannot be found
in a stack of paperwork - it is very complex, and only
comes from long experience. This causes problems for
many, but fortunately for them, they do not consider
crashing and dying to be a serious problem in comparison
to other considerations.
Re: Air Show Training Crash takes life of China's first female fighter pilot
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:52 am
by Nark1
Did I miss an Asian woman driver joke?