Women in and out of Uniform

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US F-16 Fighter Pilot Capt. Jessica Charney Rescued from Cockpit: South Carolina Air National Guard’s Exercise Pilot Extraction https://youtu.be/TMjyH9PDyyk

US F-16 Fighter pilot Capt. Jessica Charney hosts young students on South Carolina Air National Guard’s McEntire STEM day
https://youtu.be/caeeYLoBVjg

https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1812613/af-week-in-photos/
More than 2,000 students and teachers from South Carolina participate in science, technology, engineering and mathematics events during McEntire STEM Day, hosted by the South Carolina National Guard at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, April 5, 2019. STEM Day provides an up-close opportunity to work with Swamp Fox Airmen to perform hands-on learning and view the inner workings of aircraft and advanced-technology systems while being enlightened to STEM educational opportunities.

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END OF AN ERA: DELTA’S DC-9 COMPLETES FINAL SCHEDULED FLIGHT January 06 2014
https://airwaysmag.com/airlines/dc-9-completes-final-scheduled-flight/

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PLAAF Female J-10 Fighter Pilot He Xiaoli (女飞行员 何晓莉：)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xewfszk9gkI

http://www.globaltimes.cn/galleries/2657.html
http://military.workercn.cn/32825/201904/18/190418092644518_3.shtml
按照飞行计划，本周连续进行三天跨度长达10余小时的飞行训练，其中还包含跨昼夜等实战化训练课目。 “既是表演队，更是战斗队。”政委何延国介绍，飞行表演展示的是军队力量，飞行员都是从空军作战部队优秀飞行员中选拔出来的，他们常年保持战备值班能力和实战训练水平。 “你说一下开关车的程序。”4月10日，上午飞行。下达简令前，曹振忠队长随机点名提问，女飞行员何晓莉立即起立，回答流利准确。 这是何晓莉今年休假后的首次飞行。9日下午，她扎进健身房恢复体能训练。“三代战机对飞行员身体素质要求更高，飞行员需要着重训练抗荷肌群，每天要保证1.5小时的体能训练时间。”在一旁指导体能训练的航医刘达告诉记者。

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Unknown Female F-16 pilot

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Second Lt. Morgan Eckert, a 14th Student Squadron student pilot, puts on her G-suit Oct. 1, 2018, on Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi.
https://www.dvidshub.net/image/4797158/student-pilot-showcases-paintings-columbuss-art-walk

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2nd Lt. Madeleine Wawrzyniak, a student pilot assigned 71st Student Squadron, performs a preflight check on a T-6A Texan II March 28, 2019, Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The T-6 is the primary trainer designed to train student pilots in basic flying skills. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Taylor Crul)
https://www.dvidshub.net/image/5249082/student-pilot-performs-pre-flight-checks

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PLAAF Female J-10 Fighter Pilot He Xiaoli (女飞行员 何晓莉：)
http://www.cannews.com.cn/2019/0422/194564.shtml
组图：中国蓝天仪仗队女飞行员的飞行日准备
9日下午，何晓莉今年休假后的首次飞行，她扎进健身房恢复体能训练。“三代战机对飞行员身体素质要求更高，飞行员需要着重训练抗荷肌群，每天要保证1.5小时的体能训练时间。”
Flight day preparation for female pilots of the China Blue Sky Ceremony:
On the afternoon of the 9th, He Xiaoli made her first flight after taking a vacation this year. She entered the gym to resume physical training. "Three-generation fighters have higher requirements for the physical fitness of pilots. Pilots need to focus on training anti-load muscle groups and ensure 1.5 hours of physical training time per day."

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Familiarization flight in F-16 Fighting Falcon
[url]https://www.holloman.af.mil/News/Display/Article/1820407/laissez-les-bon-temps-rouler/[/url[
U.S. Air Force Airman Samantha Anderson, 54th Operations Support Squadron Aircrew Flight Equipment apprentice, prepares for a familiarization flight in an F-16 Fighting Falcon during a temporary duty assignment with the 8th Fighter Squadron, March 29, 2019 to April 12, 2019, at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, La. Anderson said the FAM flight was invaluable to her AFE career, because she now knows exactly how fliers need to be fitted. (Courtesy photo)

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ROKAF: South Korea
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvHEEXBBynk/

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Major Mandisa Nomcebo Mfeka: South Africa's (SAAF) First Black Female Fighter Pilot
https://highwaymail.co.za/318352/listen-malverns-female-fighter-pilot-soars-dreams/
Watch her interview video:
https://youtu.be/RfVfd5T_C_I

Listen her radio interview:
https://youtu.be/m3acYNuDxeI

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巴基斯坦空军的特技飞行员也被中国美女吸引
https://qzhyxx.com/tupian/%E7%A9%BA%E5% ... AF%81.html

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Indonesian F-16 Fighting Falcon
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwrg-4cgiSY/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BwsupTYg3sq/
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwt_RAggoCc/

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BRIGADIER GENERAL KRISTIN E. GOODWIN B-2 Pilot
https://gazette.com/premium/methodical-rise-preceded-spectacular-fall-for-air-force-academy-commandant/article_351aaf50-6dd0-11e9-af05-cb58ffa69ccd.html
Methodical rise preceded spectacular fall for Air Force Academy commandant

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For a mother and her 2 daughters at Delta, piloting is a family business
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/family/story/mother-daughters-delta-piloting-family-business-62653101
https://youtu.be/vnqZnw25E-E

On a warm Los Angeles afternoon, Kelly Jacobson is inspecting nearly every external inch of her 200,000-pound aircraft through the thick aviator sunglasses she fuses with her Delta Air Lines uniform. She'll be flying the Boeing 757 alongside a pilot she has a lot of hours with outside the cockpit.
Several families inside the terminal are collecting their belongings in preparation to board the more-than-three-hour flight to Atlanta. Some of the children are sporting fresh plastic wings pinned to their shirt, a gift from the pilots.
Wendy Rexon and Kelly Jacobson are mother and daughter; today is almost like every other day. They have already begun a routine they've completed hundreds of times individually but only a couple times together: arrive at the airport an hour before scheduled departure, debrief with the gate agent, walk around the aircraft and a pre-flight checklist so ingrained in their memories it only takes about 30 seconds.
Kate Rexon, also a Delta pilot, flies the Airbus A320 for the airline, so aviation is the "family business."
Flying as a family:
"We would run around in their captain hats and have fun as little kids and go on their trips with them," Kelly, Wendy's oldest daughter, told ABC News. "It was definitely part of the family business, and I started flying when I was 16, and I had the pleasure of being Kate's instructor and she was my first student."
"Kelly was my instructor. She was my instructor and I didn't treat her like a sister because at that point, you know, she wasn't," Kate responded. "She was my teacher and that I think it made us both grow."
Kate, the younger daughter, said she "dabbled" in other career aspirations, but she too ultimately fell in love with aviation.
A Rexon vacation wasn't like most. At an age when many parents wouldn't dream of letting teenagers drive during a long road trip, Kate and Kelly wore the proverbial captain's hat at an altitude of several thousand feet.
"When Kate and I were building time in little airplanes we go on vacations and mom and dad are in the back seat," Kelly described, with her mother and former flight instructor there next to her.
"Mom would sit actually in the back of the airplane. It was a little four-seater and she'd say, 'no, no.'"
Wendy describes the opportunity for her daughters as a safer alternative to other temptations: "Other parents would say, 'How can you let your children fly airplanes?'"
The mother continued, "Boy, I'd much rather give them the keys to the airplane than go with their friends out late at night to parties. You know, driving in the cars."
Reaching for the sky:
But not many young women grow up in a family of pilots -- Wendy's husband is a pilot at American Airlines, and she got started at 16.
It's no secret there's a shortage of female pilots at U.S. carriers. Only 7% of pilots are women, according to 2017 data from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Wendy credits programs at airlines around the country, like Delta's "Women Inspiring our Next Generation," which promote to young women careers in aviation. The issue, she said, boils down to a lack of awareness.
"They just don't think about it as an option," Kate said.
But the family hopes women like themselves can inspire the next generation.
"We're honored to be advocates for young women to join the field, and and just the industry in general," said Kelly, alongside her mother and sister.
Ready for anything:
While all three women describe their experience flying together as a "dream come true," there have been challenges -- as there are with any profession.
Wendy and Kelly first flew together professionally in February on a flight out of New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, and the trip didn't go exactly as planned -- there was "an extra twist."
The flight was taking off for Los Angeles when smoke and fumes materialized in the cockpit, not an exceedingly rare occurrence, but an event that requires the plane to divert before conditions worsen. Wendy and Kelly decided they were going to return to JFK.
"Delta 1975, we're going to stop on the runway, we need them to come check us out, there's no smoke in the cabin, but there's smoke in the cockpit, we're gonna open the windows," Kelly is heard telling the JFK control tower on air traffic control audio obtained by ABC News via LiveATC.net.
The flight landed safely, and the airline got the passengers to Los Angeles, but it was Wendy's first time seeing her daughter pilot an emergency landing.
"She was fantastic," Wendy said. "It was it was a difficult situation that was made easier because of that because of the training and because of her competence."
Wendy's pride in her daughters and their pride in each other is evident.
"Kelly is one of the hardest working people that I know and she's a leader," Kate said.
"My husband and I, sometimes we just look at each other and say, 'It's so great,'" Wendy said. "They were so motivated, so talented, and we just kick back and say, 'Wow, they achieved it.' And we're so happy."

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Meet First Married Pilot Couple flying in formation of Canadian Snowbirds airshow team
https://youtu.be/VGegCCgYtyE

Married couple make Snowbirds history:
https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/married-couple-make-snowbirds-history-1.4407795
For the first time in history, the Canadian Forces Snowbirds have a husband-and-wife team flying with them. The couple are both fulfilling their ambitions of being Snowbirds pilots, something they first dreamed about as children. "For me, it was when I was eight in my first school in my hometown and I think Sarah is pretty much the same," says Capt. Kevin Domon-Grenier, who flies in the team's second-line astern position in Snowbird Five. While there have been other husbands and wives on the team before, those have been in the pilot and technician roles, never before both as pilots at the same time. "When we get home we know what kind of day we had so we don't really talk about 'how was your day.' But we do it in a joking manner," says Capt. Sarah Dallaire, piloting Snowbird Two in the inner-right wing position. The pair met just over 11 years ago when chance brought them into the same recruiting centre to sign up. Domon-Grenier was initially in the infantry but then switched to the Air Force and became a pilot. The two have worked together previously. "We were working three feet away from each other and that was a big adjustment. But I think once you go through that, we grew as a couple" says Dallaire. "It's already amazing to share a military career with your spouse but once you hit the dream that you wanted to do, being a Snowbird pilot, then that's even better," Domon-Grenier adds.
Husband-and-wife team makes Snowbirds history:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/husband-and-wife-team-makes-snowbirds-history-1.4408007
While there’s always a special bond between the pilots who make up Canada’s Snowbird squadron, two of the squadron's pilots take that a step further – marriage. While they’re not the first Snowbird pilots to be married to other pilots or technicians, Capt. Kevin Domon-Grenier and Capt. Sarah Dallaire are the first-ever married couple to be part of the same flying formation. “Sometimes he flies off me, sometimes I fly off him,” Dallaire told CTV News Victoria. “Whoever gives a worse ride makes supper -- that’s how it works.” Dallaire flies Snowbird 2 on the formation’s inner right wing, while Domon-Grenier pilots Snowbird 5 on the Second Line astern. The pair say they met by chance 11 years ago, on the day they both signed up for the military. “He actually asked me for a pen at that moment,” Dallaire recalled. While Domon-Grenier first signed up as an Infantry officer, he later transferred to the Air Force to chase his childhood dream of becoming a Snowbird pilot. While the couple has worked close together before in the 10 years they’ve been married, Domon-Grenier says that there’s something special about being together as they live out their childhood dreams. "It's already amazing to share a military career with your spouse but once you hit the dream that you wanted to do, being a Snowbird pilot, then that's even better," Domon-Grenier said.