Timeline for Why are fighter pilots seated and not reclined?
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| Jun 6, 2017 at 12:18 | comment | added | Bageletas | thanks, edited to address the comments. I thought of this last night as I'd routinely hear prone in reference to a laying down rifleman not a reclining rifleman (which seems a lot more comfortable though probably harder to point down the battlefield) | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 12:12 | history | edited | Bageletas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
fixed confusion of prone vs reclined
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| Jun 6, 2017 at 8:12 | comment | added | Adrian | A prone flying position was tested on a Meteor aircraft diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/strange_vehicles/… | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 5:40 | comment | added | slebetman | Note that prone != reclined. Prone means on your stomach - and spacecraft rarely have their pilots in the prone position. The two common ones I know of for spacecraft is seated (reclined or otherwise) or standing (like the lunar lander). | |
| Jun 6, 2017 at 0:21 | comment | added | Michael MacAskill | Note that specific article quote is about prone positions, whereas the OP's question is specifically about supine positioning (as in the F1 and glider examples). The article does explicitly distinguish prone and supine. Prone crew positions are rare in actual aircraft, except maybe some WWII bomb aimers, and the Wright brothers... | |
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| Jun 5, 2017 at 13:05 | history | answered | Bageletas | CC BY-SA 3.0 |