rather than a female voice, in a monotone or urgent announcing style, resulted in the largest proportion of correct and fastest identification response times to verbal warnings, regardless of the gender of the listener. Voices There have been several "Bitching Bettys", over the years, for various commercial and military aircraft: Kim Crow - Crow's was the first voice to be digitized. Pilots and astronauts know her as the original Bitching Betty. Joan Elms – known as “Sexy Sally” to the flight crews of the Convair B-58 Hustler on the plane's magnetic tape-based warning system. Erica Lane – her voice can be heard in the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon and Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopter. Sue Milne – her voice is used in the Eurofighter Typhoon. Leslie Shook – her voice is used in the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Shook retired in 2016. Patricia Hoyt – her voice was used in the Boeing 717 and the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III. She was working in the Boeing 717 program as a mechanical engineer at the time. Other applications Voice warning systems included in cars of the late 1970s to early 1980s, such as the Datsun and Nissan "Z-Car" series, found in the 280ZX and 1984–1988 300ZX (optional in the base model and standard in the Turbo model), and the Datsun Maxima and Nissan Maxima of the early 1980s, were also known as Bitching Betty. The Datsun system issued commands such as "lights are on", or "left door is open". The system used a small box located under the vehicle's dashboard that implemented a small, white plastic record disc that used a magnetic cartridge to play spoken commands through the vehicle's audio system's speakers, similar to that of some Texas Instruments talking toys of the time period. Datsun's original name for the feature was "Talking Lady". Some Acuras (Honda's luxury car marque in the United States, Canada, and China) of the mid 2000s would ask the driver to "please fasten your seatbelt" when the driver's seatbelt was not fastened, in addition to a chime warning. The M1 Abrams tank features a female voice warning system to warn the crew of open hatches and critical faults when equipped with the System Enhancement Package. References Further reading External links The woman behind the voice Interview with Kim Crow, the original Bitching Betty Aircraft instruments English-language slang Warning systems Sexist terminology