Sources indicated it is likely, under those arrangements, that Flinn will be leaving the Air Force.
The court-martial trial, scheduled to begin Tuesday, was delayed after Flinn requested an honorable discharge.
Flinn's court-martial is scheduled to open next Tuesday at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota.
Kelly Flinn, the nation's first female B-52 pilot, to resign rather than face a court-martial.
Then came Kelly Flinn, the Air Force's first B-52 female pilot, and, a few months later, William Kite.
"I think on balance it came out right, " says Widnall, who had flown in a B-52 with Flinn.
Meyer and Denny Martin Flinn wrote the script, from a story worked up by Nimoy, Lawrence Konner, and Mark Rosenthal.
Flinn, a 1993 Air Force Academy graduate, became a B-52 bomber pilot in 1995 as the service began allowing women to fly warplanes.
Kelly Flinn, but she will also no longer be forced to go through a court-martial on adultery and related charges, according to CNN sources.
The case has drawn public attention because of Flinn's pioneering role in the military and the implications for the military's controversial code of conduct.
Kelly Flinn, Marv Albert, Frank Gifford, Michael Kennedy and Paula Jones would think that our national pastime was not baseball but the Playboy channel.
Flinn has no guarantee of leniency if she requests the chance to resign, a procedure known as resignation in lieu of court martial, or RILO.
The Air Force says Flinn has the right to file a request for discharge in lieu of court-martial, and that Widnall would consider the request on its merits.
If there had been no Flinn headlines, Mr Longhouser would still be in his job and General Ralston would now be well on his way to a better one.
As Lawrence Korb of the Brookings Institution notes, the civilian secretaries of the armed forces rarely make headlines unless a Tailhook, Aberdeen or Kelly Flinn case lands on their desk.
Flinn's case has drawn nationwide attention and she has received support from those members of the public who believe she is being punished for a crime that the Air Force often overlooks.
According to the Times report, which quoted unnamed senior officials, Widnall is looking for a way to avoid a military trial for Flinn, because she anticipates that it will become a high-profile spectacle.
But, since that means adultery per se is not a violation, the air force could well have avoided much of the embarrassment of the Flinn case (it could, for example, have offered her a non-judicial punishment rather than a court martial).
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