From: James A. Donald <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: J.A. Terranson <measl@mfn.org>
On 2014-01-20 06:23, J.A. Terranson wrote:

>> They should have waited for a more competent female pilot,

>They have been waiting over sixty years.

Jacqueline Cochrane was said to be very good.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Cochran  
She figured prominently in Chuck Yeager's autobiography, as I recall.
        Jim Bell