It seems Santorum has placed a SECOND foot into his mouth
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/02/10/423325/santorum-women-small-planes/Santorum: Women Are Capable Of ‘Flying Small Planes’
The Pentagon announcement easing the ban on women serving in combat led Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum to express his concerns that missions could be put in jeopardy “because of other types of emotions that are involved.”
later in the article -which has a clip on it says that Santorum said:
SNIP:
He says, “It’s not a matter of putting women in dangerous roles.” He tell[s] me, for example, that women are fully capable of “flying small planes.”
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I wonder how small of planes we are capable of flying.
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or Major Andrea Jensen, 40thAEGp, piloting an itsey bitsey Buff in the Stan.
This clueless idiot wants to be CinC 
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Fun facts: Maj Jensen's Stratofortress has a wingspan of 185 feet. The distance of Orville Wright's flight, 17 Dec 1903 Kitty Hawk NC, was 120 feet. Loaded for bear, her aircraft weighs in at 265,000lbs. 70,000lbs of mixed ordnance.
Let's see--this:
Or this:
Like this one, pictured with its pilot...
Maj. Shawna R. Kimbrell, 555th FS, is the first African-American female fighter pilot in the
Air Force. (USAF photo by A1C. Ashley Wood)
The U.S. Air Force began accepting women as fighter pilots in 1993. By 2008, the USAF had 70 women fighter pilots--and they had been flying combat missions in Iraq for years by then. Seems Ricky lost that number... 
