Originally Posted by
Timelord
For those that choose to comment without watching CAS’s testimony, he said this:
The current UK F35 helmet is not suitable for people below a certain weight.
There is a helmet suitable for lighter people but it does not meet UK standards of head protection. The US use this helmet for lighter people.
Should a light person be streamed F35 the UK would consider buying the lighter ( I think he said £250,000) helmet and “assess the risk “ to that individual, but that problem had not yet arisen.
I’m rather proud of the way I did that without a single male/ female/he/she!
perhaps the bigger point is UK safety exceptionalism. Why are we diverging from other operators of the aircraft?