Or an ACME Anybody can be a Glass Cutter (person) Glass Cutter (the tool).
Posted on 04/16/2025 8:22:57 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The new system came from a private/public innovation challenge aimed at women who fly jets and say they often won't drink water for hours to avoid the 'mess' of traditional relief systems.
Believe it or not, pilots relieving themselves mid-flight has become a national security issue.
For decades, many military pilots who heard nature’s call — particularly those who fly fighters and especially women in those planes — faced an unpleasant reality: use the decades-old ‘piddle packs’ or other devices designed for mid-flight peeing, hold it the whole way, or risk dangerous dehydration by drinking so little water that you never need to go.
But a new device, dubbed the Advanced Inflight Relief Universal System or AIRUS, developed through an Air Force innovation incubator program, may make it easier going for, well, going.
For as long as there have been planes in the sky, pilots in single-seat aircraft like fighter jets or others with ejection seats have had to unbuckle their harnesses and shimmy up from their seats to find a position that allowed for relief. In rare occasions, the urge to go has led to fatal accidents, including one A-10 pilot who 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.
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Rickover did NOT want ANY urinals or toilets in the back half og the submarine (engineroom bulkhead to the shaft seals.)
Had several convenient (waist high) drain funnels leading down to the aft drain tank.
:)
I thought the pilots either wore some absorbent gear, or had an external type catheter (pull on/over) system.
I’m surprised they didn’t come up with a ‘Peetot tube’. /s
“Srinkage”...
‘I was In The Pool!’
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George CantstandsYa.
Someone I know who hunts from tree stands for long periods carries a modified adult diaper in a quart size freezer zipper bag. He cuts away everything but the large absorbent pad and rolls it up in the bag. Can be used standing or seated and no chance of spillage cause it gets absorbed by the big pad. Better than pissing into a gatorade bottle.
Dehydrated fighter pilots. That sounds like a great advantage you in the morning. And women have smaller brains already, so it’s gotta hit them even worse.
What about the poop problem?
A bad meal might take 12 hours to become a big problem.
If they were flying with all those disadvantages it makes one wonder if female pilots have been being evaluated on a curve all these years.
Lots of detail:
https://www.flyairus.com/
That would be counter productive.
Around 1990 I remember seeing a TV news item about a skydiving instructor who forgot to put on his parachute for the last (obviously) of several jumps that day. They showed his helmet cam footage all the way to the ground, but I don't think there was a soundtrack. He had about half a minute to regret his absentmindedness.
An INSTRUCTOR, no less!
Ha. A buddy of mine got yelled at by the ground crew when he went back and used the urinal before we took off. Nothing like dribbling urine down the outside of the aircraft. It's a bit different at altitude.
Those that can’t do...
Actually, I could see this happening with some of the really light skydiving rigs, especially if the guy had been using several chutes over the course of a day instead of repacking the same chute between jumps.
He was a video camera man (may have been an instructor as well, but his job on that jump was to video). He got so wrapped up in taking care of his video responsibilities, he forgot to check his parachute, which if he had, he would have realized the fatal mistake of not bringing it.
Sad thing was there were others on the plane who never noticed.
What about altitudes above 30,000’ ?
Is there a different system ?
What? No just rolling the window down of the airplane.
“Sad thing was there were others on the plane who never noticed.”
Imagine the grief they go through...”If only I had noticed...”
Or an ACME Anybody can be a Glass Cutter (person) Glass Cutter (the tool).
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