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[9GClub]

Ps

Is Collins actually a pilot......... or is she just a female?

 

[mzaharis]

Is Collins actually a pilot......... or is she just a female?

She's the commander. Translation - pilot, left-seat-occupier.

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/collins.html


This biography gives her over 4700 hours in 30 types of aircraft - I know that number isn't too impressive to some of you, but not bad for a military career from 1979 to 1990, is it? She was attending the AF Test Pilot School when selected as an astronaut.

EDIT - Since this biography is a bit dated, she has presumably picked up a lot of T-38 time since them.

 

[9GClub]

She's the commander. Translation - pilot, left-seat-occupier.

MZ,

HA! I know that, I was joking. Check out the "Hello, I'm Miss KittyKat" thread.

Last I heard, Collins has somewhere north of 6,200 hours of jet time. If I'm not mistaken, her primary ride in the AF was the -141.

 

[mzaharis]

Sorry - should have put [Literal] and [/Literal] around my post. Hadn't read the MissKittyKat post first.


Yeah, the bio lists mostly C-141 experience. I guess that Transport pukes also have a shot at a machine with a >1-to-1 thrust ratio.

 

[9GClub]

No prob, I read somewhere that her husband flew -141's too and that's how they met.