Air Force pilots get a new way to pee at 30,000 feet

taskandpurpose ^ | 04 15 2025 | Patty Nieberg

[vikingd00d]

>>But a new device, dubbed the Advanced Inflight Relief Universal System

Fancy name for ‘Depends’

[Libloather]

After landing, it’s called AIRUS OUT.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“An A-10 pilot failed to re-strap himself properly into his parachute after using a device to pee, only to be forced to eject later in the flight.”

I could not think of a bigger “Oh sh1t” moment that ejecting only to discover you forgot to put your parachute on.

[Responsibility2nd]

[DFG]

“Man, I gotta pee” - Alan Shepard in Mercury Freedom 7

https://www.americaspace.com/2016/04/30/man-i-gotta-pee-55-years-since-freedom-7-began-americas-adventure-in-space-part-1/

[Magnum44]

The device comes with five different cups for women and two sizes for men

Hmmm, I bet no man wants anything but the 'large' size. Otherwise, the locker room hazing would be brutal.

[Gaffer]

Flew on a US Navy DC-3 ish tail dragger in Iceland during the mid 70s. In flight ‘relief’ was in the back through the rear compartment door at the tail. On the back of the door was a funnel connected to a tube routed through the bottom of the plane....

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Wonder if it got the Astronaut Lisa Nowak’s approval for long distance travel?

[Larry Lucido]

“I was in the pool, so I guess a small will do for now.”

[George from New England]

Channeling Seinfeld I see

[aynrandfreak]

Good reference!

[AlaskaErik]

I just used the urinal in the back of my C-130.

[ansel12]

“” 2023 survey of Navy flyers found that nearly 93% of female pilots and aircrew stationed in California, Japan, and Spain said they would “tactically dehydrate” to avoid having to pee in the cockpit, sometimes not drinking water on flights as long as eight hours. Researchers have found that dehydrated pilots can have lower G-tolerance by up to 50%, leading to G-induced loss of consciousness, a reduction in their physical and cognitive abilities, headaches and altered vision””

That wasn’t known by the public and it seems like it would have had something to do with military capabilities, but I guess not.

[fruser1]

Why don’t they just have stewardesses hold a container for them as they lean over the pilot while wearing a very loose blouse?

[VTenigma]

A non-problem. In the very near future the pilots will be on the ground.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Advanced Inflight Relief Universal System or AIRUS ..

What? They did not adapt the project name “Advanced Inflight Relief Pilot Insertion Stress System” or AIRPISS?

WWLP? (Where Would Laz Point?)

[Antihero101607]

Lmao

[GOPJ]

What? They did not adapt the project name “Advanced Inflight Relief Pilot Insertion Stress System” or AIRPISS?

LOL Good one...

[Afterguard]

We had a full-on head in our P-3Cs. However, it had to be dumped and cleaned on post flight. Junior enlisted aircrew got that job...