Kelly Flinn, the nation's first female B-52 pilot, to resign rather than face a court-martial.

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The Air Force confirmed arrangements have been reached in the sensitive case involving the division's first female B-52 pilot.

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Given that the Air Force still doesn't have a plan to replace it, it has been said that the mother of the last B-52 pilot has yet to be born.

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Then came Kelly Flinn, the Air Force's first B-52 female pilot, and, a few months later, William Kite.

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Flinn, a 1993 Air Force Academy graduate, became a B-52 bomber pilot in 1995 as the service began allowing women to fly warplanes.

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The report identified the pilot as Timothy B.

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