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CONFIDENTIAL
7. Women pilots have as much stamina and endurance and are no
more subject to operational or flying fatigue than male pilots doing
similar work. Women pilots can safely fly as many hours per month as
male pilots.
8. Even limiting the selection of women pilots to the age and
height groups named below, and also discounting for all factors incident
to the fact that the WASP program was comparatively small and therefore
somewhat more selective than even the aviation cadet program, an effect-
ive women's airforce of many scores of thousands of good dependable
pilots could be built up in the case of need from the nearly 13 million
young women of our country between the ages of 18 and 28, about 6 million
of whom are single.
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Any future women pilot program should be militarized from the
beginning.
2. For general economy and efficiency, the upper age limit should
be 27 or 28 years for women to be trained as pilots for subsequent
operational flying duties.
3. All pilots in any future program should pass through a standard
training course before being assigned to operational flying duty.
40 The minimum height for women accepted for service as pilots
with the Army Air Forces, with the present types of planes in use,
should be 64 inches, with a minimum weight of 110 pounds. Above these
limits the weight allowance in relationship to height should be the
same as for men, less about 7 pounds.
5. The next of kin of WASPs who died in the service should
receive compensation comparable to what would have been received if
the WASP had been on military status with insurance privileges and
benefits. This requires Congressional actions Second to this, the
WASP who finished the program in good standing should receive veterans'
rights when veterans' rights are granted to any non-military group, and
this also would require legislation.
New The
JACQUELINE COCHRAN
Director of Women Pilots
a
Incl
Report
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CONFIDENTIAL
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