Its a crying shame so much is being made
out the fact Kirsty Stewart is female,…………….

It certainly is, but what are people supposed to think ? Being female was the
only thing that made her stand out from the rest of the team.

It would have been the same if the team had a black member, they would
have stood out too. It’s no big deal

If you want to see how much an aircraft can be patched up, you only have to
look at one of the USAF’s KC-135s.

Alan there is a recent thread on this without digging up this one:)!

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=112725

I did a search to try and find it, but obviously used the wrong key word.
That’s why I added it to this thread, rather than starting a new one. As the story had already appeared on here.

Sorry for any distress caused

It’s inevitable that the cry will go out….. “she couldn’t take it because she’s a woman”, which is not really fair at all.
I wonder how many of the other pilots feel like packing it in, but can’t because they will lose face amongst their colleagues ?.
It’s no good flying in close formation with someone who isn’t 100% focussed on what they are doing.

Good luck to Kirsty in whatever she does now.

An update on this incident

The pilot of the Sukhoi HA-YAO pleaded guilty at Southend Magistrates Court
to negligently endangering persons and property. He was fined £3,000 and
ordered to pay £588.50 prosecution costs

Just out of interest, when was the last time that the Swiss were called upon
to defend it’s borders ?

Nice pictures, they’ve come out well.

When I took pictures at Hendon a couple of years ago, I found that the
shadow/highlights option in Photoshop, could lighten the shadows quite well, as long as
you don’t over do it.

[QUOTE=robdd1;1852267 I like the scene in the ‘Final Countdown’ when the F14’s do a low pass over the small boat and later buzz the zeros.[/QUOTE]

Yep, one of my favourites too. 🙂