Show women flying students learn easier then men A blue eyed slip of a girl who teaches flying to six foot engineers at rensselaer polytechnic institute in troy N Y believes its safer to teach women students they are more willing to do as they are told according to IRV miss Iriss barbara kibbee 25 year old pound civil aeronautics authority flight instructor despite their fear of the air miss kibbee said average women know they know nothing about flying or mechanics or engineering or physics and ana are consequently easy to teach on the other hand she continued 1 I find that some men think they know how things should be done and sometimes are not as ready to follow instructions this is particularly true of middle aged men who have been successful in business and who as executives have become accustomed to giving rather than taking orders miss kibbee one of the few women flight instructors in the country was already a licensed commercial pilot and instructor before her appointment point mont to ers pilot training program 1 I found that my sex handicaps me as an instructor S she he said some men at first question the idea of being taught to fly by a slender little woman but after the first flight all this changes if t they it ey see she knows her b business us ln and has as much nerve as they have all there is to it |