Posted on 05/25/2020 10:56:38 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
(CNN) — The US Air Force has removed its minimum height requirements for prospective pilots, doing away with a barrier that had disadvantaged women.
Previously, aspiring Air Force pilots were required to have a standing height of 5'4" to 6'5" and a sitting height of 34 to 40 inches. Applicants shorter than 5'4" or taller than 6'5" had to submit a waiver.
Though most height waivers were approved, the restrictions eliminated about 44% of the US female population ages 20 to 29, according to the Air Force.
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I am in the air force NOW and we have an epidemic of pornographic bimbos trying to get attention. They have no interest in the technicalities just being around guys, preferably superior officers they seek to blackmail with complaints of sexual harassment if they do not get their way
These whomen do not envy, they do not know good, nor evil, nor pretty nor ugly, they are nothing who want it all handed to them, they have no passion because they are full of drama and passion themselves.
LOL! Agreed. Hope you’re having a great day, FRiend.
With every real flying women, you have hundreds of bimbos who have no interest in flying and only do it because it makes them look cool like the real flying woman. They just go there for the guys. They have zero interest in the technical work and some secretely hate it like the kid who became a pilotinstesd of a poet sbecause daddy told him to
My GF’s son went into the AF. He’s got bad eyes and is 6’8”. Decided on being a mechanic.
No. I’m talking about back when it was not a mob recreational activity to pummel people with a brain
Hub was not exactly a feminist. I did use the term ‘express’. One knows. Wives know.
Yep. We have a Dead Poet society military. These feminine kids who belong to pausing in paintings like Obama or the Mona Lisa who want to join the airforce for the cool looks of it, not for the action. They start crying when discipline is imposed or sueing for sexual harassment when they do not make the mark
Oh I’m not talking about insane practices. I’m talking about when women started flying within the military in the early eighties.
I don’t doubt it.
But I’m just talking about pilots. The subject of the thread.
This is STUPID.
For the Navy - there is a ‘Manual of Anthropomorphic Measurements’ for each ‘platform’ (plane). It specifies what are acceptable for each platform. Sitting height - minimum and maximum. Arm Reach - minimum and maximum. Back of seat to end of knees (don’t want knees clipped if ejecting). Weight - min/max (an ejection seat might not work properly for someone too heavy - and it might compress the spine and harm someone too light.
It is VERY expensive to design a plane that has more ‘flexible ranges’ - to try to allow someone say 4’11’ up to 6’6”. So - you design a plane within certain constraints- and you limit the crew to fit within those constraints. PERIOD.
A few years ago - one of my son’s USNA friends wanted to fly F-18 jets - but was too tall - so he went to P-3’s and P-8s. A young lady I worked with in Civil Air Patrol weighed too little to fly F-18s - so she decided to go to West Point and work to fly combat helicopters...(more flexible range of values for pilots/co-pilots).
Phone books.
Beat me to it!
For resisting G-forces, wouldn’t short/stout be better than tall/thin?
Saburo Sakai said that in the prewar Japanese Navy, they had an extreme standard for pilots vision. Part of their training and selection was to be able to find certain bright stars during daylight hours. Then to look away and see if you can find it again. He felt like their policy was so strict that the IJN Passed on hundreds of pilots they should have accepted.
Yeah, they can serve me a sandwich.
Well, I don’t even think they should be on golf courses, or in locker rooms after sports events.
I don’t think women should be in men’s locker rooms nor doing commentary. I’m a girl so ...
“Nothing good will come of this. Not a damn thing.”
You got that right!
I just looked it up: 20 - 40 correctable is the requirement. Did not specify whether pilot or NFO.
Was 20 - 20 when I entered USN pilot training in 1964.
Obviously, some things have changed - probably not for the better!
They HAD to lower the standards!
Otherwise, not enough girls would have made it into or through the pipeline!
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