PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - ‘Stop choosing useless white male pilots’, RAF told
Thread: ‘Stop choosing useless white male pilots’, RAF told
View Single Post
Old 1st Jun 2023, 11:36
  #71 (permalink)  
Ohrly
 
Join Date: Jul 2021
Location: UK
Posts: 101
Received 50 Likes on 28 Posts
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
Gosh, so a European country whose pilot base was mostly male decided to write the specifications for ejection seats around the dimensions of European males? You must have been shocked to find that out.
Ohrly is offline  
Reply