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The initial members of the WASPS were, to a great extent, flyers who could claim 1000 to 2000 hours and were well qualified, for this reason, to handle the ships which were to be at that time their primary responsibility. Later, acceptance for primary training was made of other female pilots, some of whom could clam only 30 to 50 flying hours, and it is the loss qualified Wasps who have been, for the most part made the working example for this report; logically, because they were in the majority. 
  It was the intension of Army Air Force at first to use these WASPS in the ferrying of only primary trainers and liaison ships; aircraft with which they were well acquainted in their civilian flying; ships which held no great complication of things mechanical; ships which were sorely needed in widely scattered places at the time of the WASP activation. A sufficient quantity of male piolets, either civilians or military, was not then available and it was because of this shortage that the WASPS were organized. Why they were not put into uniform and made actual members of the military service is a moot question; holding in their status of civilians, retaining the prerogative of resignation at any time they so wished, it was an ill-advised situation which allowed them to flaunt authority to an extent and to exploit the lack of control which might be exercised over them. 
The adaptability, conduct and personal record of an organization such as this will be as cosmopolitan as those persons who are its members. A single magnificent factor has come to light which, admitted by some of the WASPS, denied by a few others, has yet been recognized throughout the flying world. Women, it seems, are essentially unmechanical; theirs is an innate lack of mechanical aptitude which makes flying, as practiced by the majority, of an unsafe caliber - because it is so mechanical. In the opinion of one of the heads of Air Training at this station, only 5% of women flyers.
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