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

taskandpurpose ^ | 04 15 2025 | Patty Nieberg

[OftheOhio]

Gatorade bottles always worked for me, lol.

[OftheOhio]

Naw! Gatorade bottles are the best. Trailer Park boys...

[Thud]

I read twenty years ago about a female second seat pilot in an F-15 fighter-bomber in action over Afghanistan who was nicknamed “The Camel” for her awesome ability to hold her water without urinating.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Thanks for the additional detail. It was a long time ago, so I’m not surprised I didn’t remember it perfectly.

[USS Alaska]

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

Mostly correct, but there will be humans flying aircraft for decades.

[SkyDancer]

They wear a pressurized one piece flight suit.

[VTenigma]

No doubt but probably not fighter/bombers.

[Secret Agent Man]

They can control and plan for food issues differently than liquids. I do. I know pilots often wont eat much before missions, and I would bet they pick safer plainer meals to avoid problems. I would, and I do. But you pee a lot more often than #2, thats why its more of an issue.

[mabarker1]

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[DesertRhino]

Dehydration seriously degrades mental capabilities. And they are deliberately operating that way.

[DesertRhino]

Well, if Rickover ever deemed something a bad idea, it probably was.

[DesertRhino]

In the book Skunk Works, they described how the U-2 pilots conducting the long range flights over the USSR are only things like steak and eggs before a flight for that very reason.

[going hot]

makes one wonder if female pilots have been being evaluated on a curve all these years.

Likely female pilots have been evaluated on their curves for a while.