The Washington Post, November 8th, 1994
The gray whale of an airplane came hurtling out of the afternoon sky, its bulbous nose aimed at the steel deck of this aircraft carrier. The next few seconds would tell whether the 115-pound female pilot could bring the 30-ton plane down on the deck for the controlled crash that is a carrier landing. It was not only a question of life or death for Lt. Shannon Workman, at the controls, but also a question of whether the Navy was right or wrong in allowing women to fly on and off aircraft carriers in combat planes like the big EA-6B electronic warfare jet now coming in at more than 100 miles an ...
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