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3. It follows from conclusion 1 above that women can effectively release male pilots for other duties, and they have done so with the WASP program.

4. Physiology peculiar to women is not a handicap to flying or dependable performance of duty in a properly selected group.

5. The psychological, aptitude, and other tests used in the case of male pilots have approximately the same usefulness in the case of women pilots.

6. The flying safety record of women pilots approximates that of male pilots in the same type of work, whether training or operational. The elimination rate for women in training as pilots is approximately the same as for the flying cadets in the same age groups.

7. Women pilots have as much stamina and endurance and are no more subject to operational or flying fatigue than male pilots doing similar work. Women pilots can safely fly as many hours per month as male pilots.

8. Even limiting the selection of women pilots to the age and height groups named above, and also discounting for all factors incident to the fact that the WASP program was comparatively small and therefore somewhat more selective than even the aviation cadet program, an effective women's airforce of many scores of thousands of good dependable pilots could be built up in the case of need from the nearly 13,000,000 young women of our country between the ages of 18 and 28, about 6,000,000 of whom are single.

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