The guy and gal in the pic are Chuck Yeager and Jaqulene Cochran. She was a full-bird Col. in the Women's Air Corps. She was also a winner of the Collier trophy. A most pioneering aviatrix since Amelia Earhart. During WW2, she worked closely with Hap Arnold to get women into the WAC to free up the men in order to fight the war.

Yep, the winner is zagnut! Congratulations!

These ain't models!
http://pratt.edu/~rsilva/witches.htm

I'm a little skeptical about the pics of the women with long hair... If I was their C/O I'd be telling them to cut it before it flops around their helmet.

Also, you've got 2 pics of "Claire Sweeney"... so which one is the real one? the TV presenter? or the one in front of the 100Sqn BAe Hawk?

Also, juat out of interest, what shot at KC's aircraft? and what was she doing at the time? it seems there is not a lot of bullet dispersion, so she must have been going pretty slow...

S!

Unfortunately H-T-R your second pic of Claire Sweeney isn't her, it is in fact a real RAF pilot,a QWI, very intelligent and flies single seat.(that photo may have been re-touched..)

Now this is my kind of porn!!!

Airplanes and chicks! It can't get any better

Hmm.

Fastfreddy's pic is how I picture Sacha Andreeva to look in my Sacha series, I think.

Hmm.

Miao, Cat

Well, why not have both...a Sacha and a Leshka within the series ? ('Leshka' is Russian short version for 'Alexei'...I only found that out recently)...They fly together...went through hell in some tough missions...love begins to blossom...*a song cuts in..."On the Wings of Love...yadda yadda yadda...."......it'll be like Tom Clancy meets Mills&Boon :p

Seriously though...time to answer the questions you guys asked..

Yes, true. That is not Claire Sweeeney. As I said, these pics were provided by members of the flyinggear forum at Yahoo Groups. Somehow that Hawk pilot pic snuck in amongst the riot and laughter we were having over the Claire Sweeney photo and got itself represented as another 'Claire Sweeney'. Errors are therefore mine That particular photo is Crown Corporation copyright BTW Does that answer your question No-457 Squog? As for Squog's question on the long hair being worn by some of the women pilots, this is allowed as long as it is of manageable length. I have seen longer hair length on a read F-16 female pilot.

Marc-David,

Those photos from Google are excellent...about your second photo with those three lovely Asian ladies, it is possible that these are pilots of the Taiwanese Air Force. The uniforms looks similar, and so does the squadron patches. Since I'm no expert on Taiwan, I will defer to the members of the flyinclothing forum to verify and get back to you.

The third photo you posted shows three members of Jacqueline Conchran's WAC

Probably AAA. I'm no expert. What was she doing at the time? I think maybe she was trying to deliver a package....and it's not on behalf of FedEx. Was she going slow ? No idea. I'm no expert. But with Hog's primary mission of going low and much slower than the fast movers, such things as getting hit is a very high possibility. Have to admit, KC is indeed attractive.

The million dollar question...Why do men love a woman in uniform ?

Okay, thank you to the rest of you who posted links to the Night Witches and Lilya Litvak. Very good!

HTR

Claire Bloody Sweeney ! "The Forces Sweetheart" The original sweetheart was Vera Lynne (sic?) in WWII because she went round and entertained the troops and was very popular and a bit of a sweetheart, Claire Sweeney is a second rate Tv actress who was nominated as the Forces sweetheart which was news to us actually IN the forces. I think that Picture of her in flying gear must of been retouched as in reality "lovely Claire" has a rather large rear axle ! and she ain t no sweetheart of mine ! (grumbles off muttering why not Anna Friel ??)