Canada - our future 51st state

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.

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Bat-mite said:

I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but how could Canada be one state? It is made up of 13 states of its own!

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Bat-mite said:

I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but how could Canada be one state? It is made up of 13 states of its own!

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markkoelsch said:

Rush is Canadian.

Triumph is Canadian.

Enough said.

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modeltrains said:

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

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jd2cylman said:

I'm on board with this. The ONLY thing on french fries is KETCHUP!!! Yous guys who get all fancy and throw cheese on them... Or chili uke:
Don't get me wrong, I LIKE chili, but keep you chili in a bowl, and your fries on the other plate where they belong (all naked, just waitin for some ketchup :drool: ), but chili and fries are two SEPARATE meals.

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SS/EA 6BBL 71 Cuda said:

WHAT? You don't like putting CHS on fries? How un-midwestern you are my good friend! :no: I grew up in Vis-Con-Sun...We put CHEESE on everything.
Sandwiches-
Burgers-
Double Topping of on Pizza-
Cereal...
Ice Cream...

The list goes on. :lol:

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TheTellurian said:

IIRC chili on fries were called Coney [Island] Fries at the A&Ws up here back in the 50s. Where is Coney Island btw?


Richard

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