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doters them from duties other than ferrying, and even then, assignment should cease with other then light, non-complicated aircraft. Opinions which must be respected seem to indicate that they could perhaps be used in instructorships on primary trainers and liaison ships, but even in these two classifications certain limitations which they possess will serve to restrict their use.
   These elements cry for consideration, and the observations to which they point should be given definite importance in the drawing of conclusions. Suppose, for example, two instructors were available; one male and one female. Suppose, too, that one of the two had had only 150 or 200 flying hours and the other 600 or 1000 hours. If the question were simply that of choosing the instructor from whom to learn such choice would be obvious, regardless of sex. So long as the ratio of difference remained fairly uneven, the choice should logically still fall to the one wish the largest number of flying hours. But suppose one were male and one female, and both could claim an almost identical number of hours in the air. To whom, then, would your choice fall for instructorship.
  Examination of individual qualifications on the aircraft to be utilized in training could be made, and the choice effected thereby. Suppose, again, that both qualifications were equal, or nearly so. Then the admissions of both male and female may be shown! Many of the members of the WASP freely concede that they would accept instruction from a male than a female piolet. Some of these women can give no specific reason; others will name simply a greater confidence in males in such things as flying ability; still others retain the burro of exploitation by feminine employers in earlier life. Men, feeling a superior ability to women in things mechanical, will resent feminine instruction; while there are exceptions as in all things, this truth is almost universal
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