Fighter pilot

 

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This picture shows the flyover at the Superbowl The Superbowl is the national football league championship game in the USA. It's the final game of the season and is watched by 92 million TV viewers. Traditionally, the game is launched by a flyover by the US Navy who fly four planes in a diamond formation.

This year, to mark 50 years of women flying in the US Navy, all four planes making the diamond formation will be piloted by women. This has never happened before. 

One of the pilots is Catie Perkowski. She says, "As a football fan, when I got the call to do the Superbowl flyover, it's almost like a dream."

Catie normally flies aircrafts on and off an aircraft carrier in the South China Sea and  says there is no distinction about her gender; "What it boils down to is that we trained to do this job together. I didn't join the navy to be a female fighter pilot. I joined the navy to be a fighter pilot, so to me it makes no difference."

- What is a fighter pilot?

- Do you think there are gender stereotypes around fighter pilots? Where do they come from? 

- How fast do you think the flyover is? (345mph)

- What do you think the challenges are flying a diamond formation over a football stadium at 345 miles per hour?

- What are the challenges flying a jet place on and off an aircraft carrier?

- "I didn't join the navy to be a female fighter pilot. I joined the navy to be a fighter pilot."  what does Catie mean by this?

- Catie says her gender makes no difference; what do you think? 

- If gender makes no difference, why is this a news story? Why not have one woman fluing a plane in the formation, or two women and two men?

- Why is this about No Outsiders?

- Which British Value is this about?

No Outsiders: Everyone different, everyone equal by Andrew Moffat

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