‘Stop choosing useless white male pilots’, RAF told

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Originally Posted by ORAC

Hmm, you definitely can, they wrote the specification around the 95% percentile European male weight and physical dimensions.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/reque..._passthrough=1

US paper, but the principle applies..

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/36735983.pdf

There has to be a set of practical design limits within the specification, surely.
A further problem is the data used for mid-70's specs is that the population has grown !
Especially in the context of well-fed first-world countries we export our aeroplanes to.