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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by alistairSH on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:13AM (#33507734)
Oh yeah, as noted in parallel comments, averages are terrible for things like designing airplane cockpits, and I imagine crash dummies as well.

Even if there's an unexpected distribution, that's no way around there being a massive number of very obese women to pull the average to 38".

I thought my wife was pretty normal/average-ish at 5'4" and size 6/8, which is a full 10" smaller waist than the web is claiming as the average.

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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by bombcar on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:40AM (#33508211)
Note that a 10" shorter waist is only about 1.5" on a side (diameter of 9 inches vs 12) which is noticeable but not as much as "10 inches" would make you think.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by Blahah on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:10PM (#33509670)
That difference is visually absolutely vast - for the same height, in most sizing charts, it's approximating a 50% increase in body mass.
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Re:The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived by WalterBright on Monday November 07, 2022 @01:17PM (#33509787)
I was at Boeing when the cockpits were redesigned to accommodate women:

1. lower control forces

2. shorter legs

3. shorter bodies (need to see over the dash)

With the lower control forces, Boeing was concerned that men would then overcontrol the aircraft, but as far as I know this hasn't turned out to be a problem.

Women were not strong enough to handle the control forces in WW2 aircraft under emergency conditions. Those airplanes were designed around the limit of a man's strength.

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