>A McKinleyville Coast Guard unit is highlighting their first all-female helicopter crew in celebration of Women’s History Month, Saturday.
According to Women In Aviation International, “while the amount of women in the U.S. Aviation Field is still small with women only representing about seven percent of the total pilot population, the number of women involved is steadily increasing and women are represented in nearly every aviation occupation today.”
Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay was able to achieve an aircrew consisting solely of women due to an increase of female Coast Guardsmen at the unit.
>“The Coast Guard is striving to increase the number of women in the organization overall, not only in aviation,” said Lt. Audra Forteza, a Sector Humboldt Bay aircraft commander. “It’s wonderful that our small unit has enough females that we can show young women in the community that they do have these kind of opportunities and hopefully we can inspire them to pursue their career dreams and grow up to be whatever they want to be.”
Sector Humboldt Bay’s area of responsibility consists of 250 miles of rugged coastline from the Mendocino-Sonoma County line north to the California-Oregon border.
5 weeks and that machine and it's crew are wreckage. Cap this.
Elijah Martinez
Anyone taking bets on when the first ‘all-female’ helicopter crash occurs?
Asher Powell
Fpbp.
Also really relieved that we have hit this historic accomplishment. Man for a second there I was getting bummed out about this pandemic and all, but then I see that 3 girls can fly a helicopter and I'm reminded that itll all be OK user
>Helicopter crashes affect women the most. Here's why... i can see the headlines
Jonathan Powell
>Man for a second there I was getting bummed out about this pandemic and all, but then I see that 3 girls can fly a helicopter and I'm reminded that itll all be OK user legit lol'd
HAHA (Seriously, though that's mean to the sharks.)
Parker Harris
Does anyone really give a shit about this? No one cares about first cunts, only firsts. If a cunt happens to be the first human to do a thing, good on her. Giving cunts participation trophies because they're late to the party is pure wankery.
One of my all time fave women fail gifs. Why are we supposed to pretend that women are in any way capable of sports? They have tried this bullshit in mountain biking for women's slopestyle and it's a damn joke! Guys are ripping rad af airs and the girls are doing an x-up that my six year boy can do. Everyone knows it is a damn joke yet they are all so proud and want us to believe in them. Women belong in the kitchen, period.
Jackson Morales
This is the Coast Guard's way of preventing people from getting underway in stormy weather.
They should just hang a sign, "Free Nuclear Missile complete with launch codes and keys" outside of the base.
Ryan Morales
I could easily kill any of these frumpy dykes with one hand tied behind my back.
Ayden Baker
anybody remember the big hullabaloo about the Navy’s first female fighter jet pilot? remember when they dredged her and her tomcat up from the bottom of the ocean?
Eli Allen
Not really, searching for anything sucks these days.
Tyler Gonzalez
yeah they ignored red flags during her training to try and beat the Chairforce as having the first roastie jet pilot.
Grayson Foster
Don't use google.
Jace Morales
Haha men BTFO
Chase Scott
It almost doesn't matter what engine is used anymore. Yandex is pozzed, dogpile is rarely better, so there's that, and then duckduckgo is secretly google. Yeah.
Mason Fisher
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_Hultgreen > Finding herself overshooting the landing area centerline, Hultgreen attempted to correct her approach by applying left rudder pedal, which caused the nose to disrupt the airflow over the left (inside) wing, as well as the airflow to the left engine intake. The port engine suffered a compressor stall and lost power—a well-known deficiency characteristic of the F-14A's TF30-P-414A engine when inlet air is no longer flowing straight into it. For this reason, the F-14 NATOPS flight manual warned against excess yaw. Loss of an F-14 engine results in asymmetric thrust, which can exceed rudder authority, especially at low speeds.
>After aborting the approach, Hultgreen selected full afterburner on the remaining engine, causing an even greater asymmetry. This, combined with a high angle of attack, caused an unrecoverable approach turn stall and rapid wing drop to the left. The radar intercept officer in the rear seat, Lt. Matthew Klemish, initiated ejection for himself and Hultgreen as soon as it was apparent the aircraft was becoming uncontrollable. First in the automated ejection sequence, the RIO survived.[citation needed] However, by the time Hultgreen's seat fired 0.4 seconds later, the plane had exceeded 90 degrees of roll, and she was ejected downward into the water, killing her instantly.[7]:168-169
>On 12 November, 19 days after the crash, the Navy salvaged the plane and recovered her body, still strapped into the ejection seat.[6] The wreckage was in 3,700 feet (1,100 m) of water.
I mean to be fair it wasn’t really her fault, except technically it was, but flying an F-14 is hard.
Adam Turner
>"She died just months after she was certified for combat, when she crashed her F-14 Tomcat into the sea on final approach to USS Abraham Lincoln."
Thank you.>Hultgreen selected full afterburner on the remaining engine lol sure, get your quarter's worth.
Xavier Martinez
She even put the right engine on full blast after stalling the left, there's no way she was legitimately trained. She's one of the first cases of diversity hiring going extremely awry.
Nathaniel Hughes
I can't fly anything, but common sense told me that going 1000% on the right would most definitely affect the left angle as well. Maybe she thought the one engine would "even it out" because..??
Oliver Murphy
you know how in a car or whatever if you speed up turning happens faster? She might've just not accounted for the part where it all came from one side
Robert Scott
I can’t fly anything either but if I recall from nerding on simulators as a kid, Tomcats are terrible planes in terms of recovering when something goes wrong and with the shitty TF engines in the A model, things quite frequently went wrong. Exactly the kind of plane you don’t want to have a second rate pilot handling especially when a carrier is involved
Julian Flores
imagine the smell
Gabriel Ramirez
jej
Kevin Hernandez
remember, when you're out at sea and drowning to death, gender & race is more important than competency :))
Logan Foster
>you know how in a car or whatever if you speed up turning happens faster? So flying probably isn't as hard as I thought. Why do they let women fly now? Yeah, but at least they were stylish. Reminds me of that Dirty Harry movie where they were willing to put women on the front lines of police work because reasons nevermind the fact that they weren't nearly ready.
Benjamin Myers
Everybody clap now, they need it because they can't do their job without it or anything else for that matter.
Luis Perry
They were basically designed as a high speed launch and remote guidance platform for the Phoenix missile, to intercept soviet bombers before they got into cruise missile range of American carrier battle groups. They were absolutely spectacular and unparalleled in that one particular role but the problem is that the Soviets never actually tried to sink an American carrier battle group so...
Liam Green
Well, better to have and not need... Speaking of which, I heard that only Iran was flying F-14s now and that all the others were destroyed along with their specialized maintenance equipment. I bet deep down in some bunker the F-14 still survives in America (it was a pretty plane).
There’s like 4 porky pigs in that photo and non of the other look like they are in that great of shape either, bet you they didn’t even pass basic but they just let it slide, gotta have that diversity after all.
Gavin Smith
>All-Female US Coast Guard Helicopter Crew But who is gonna fly the helicopter though?
Dylan Foster
Boom. /thread and lulz
Hudson Cook
On 25 October 1994, Hultgreen died when her F-14A-95-GR, BuNo 160390,[4] coded "NH 103," crashed on approach to USS Abraham Lincoln. My favorite part about this statement is it implies the F-14 crashed, not the she crashed the F-14. Women shouldn’t be in the military period.
