<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=260005.msg12921935#msg12921935">Quote from: Mac84 on 21-01-2017, 18:24:02</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">So yes, the likely hood of female pilots, particularly in the circumstances that the Macross was in during both the Movie, and the Original Series would lend it self to be a number of female pilots.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I would like to offer two counterpoints to your analysis.<br/><br/>1) I don't give a flying Sierra what the official stats say about fighter complements and whatnot. Don't try to dazzle me with science.  :P<br/><br/>2) Whatever the numbers are, we are talking about a show here that was produced when female fighter pilots were rare, perhaps almost unheard of in most military forces. I think it is safe to assume that the show was produced with real world 1980s very much in mind. meaning airforce = male.