4dogs
The NASA documents I mentioned are _not_ aviation documents at all. Oddly, NASA seems not to be responsible for the standards behind FAR (despite the first A).
I am not familiar with Aviation Regs, but I can tell you that internationally applicable Anthropometry Tables must specify:
Population percentile range - NASA uses 5th to 95th
Age - NASA uses 40
Sex - NASA uses both male and female
Nationality - NASA uses American and Japanese
Epoch (sorry, astronomical term, refers to a reference year, because human populations are steadily getting taller) NASA STD-3000 uses 2000 as the reference year.
Thus the range in the tables is 5th percentile Japanese female to 95th percentile American male (luckily the Scandinavian astronaut I know is rather short).
If you can handle a 5 Mb file and are interested in a std not cited in FAR/JAR, I can send you the Rev B of NASA STD-3000 in Acrobat form.
But to not answer your question, _I_ have no idea what data was used for the 146, 737, A320 or Dash-8. I would be interested also.
Stevenson (two dogs)
Mare Crisium Srl
[This message has been edited by Stevenson (edited 25 November 1999).]