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Talking about the CF-105, this is a nice book to have. Is 1980, revised 1992, and I don't know whether it is currently in print.
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Oh, and flipping through book to foldout diagrams in back one drawing has figure outlines labeled "Normal size pilot" and "Normal size navigator"
And that brings to mind this published in Toronto last year,
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages.html
--> Edit:
Oh, and flipping through book to foldout diagrams in back one drawing has figure outlines labeled "Normal size pilot" and "Normal size navigator"
And that brings to mind this published in Toronto last year,
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages.html
In the early 1950s, a young lieutenant realized the fatal flaw in the cockpit design of U.S. air force jets. Todd Rose explains in an excerpt from his book, The End of Average.
In the early 1950s, the U.S. air force measured more than 4,000 pilots on 140 dimensions of size, in order to tailor cockpit design to the "average" pilot. But it turned out the average airman didn't exist.