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“The jet doesn’t discriminate. The jet doesn’t know who is flying it, and it will always behave the exact same way. The fighter community is an extremely performance-focused field that’s based purely on merits and tactics. I don’t consider myself a female pilot, but a pilot that happens to be a female. I’m here to do a job, and that is to make this team the best out there, inspire people to be better, and to fly the F-35 as hard as I can.”
Source: From comments made by Capt. Kristin “Beo” Wolfe, a second-generation fighter pilot, and former F-22 Raptor pilot, who will lead the new F-35A Lightning II Demonstration Team.
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