"George Z. Bush" wrote

That's one pilot's opinion of another and hardly definitive. BTW, in
earlier
days, anybody weighing 270 pounds would not have been able to fit into a
fighter
cockpit. The tall guys inevitably ended up in bombers or transports, and
the
real heavy guys (like 270 lbs.) ended up as the flight surgeon's medically
grounded annual project. Century series cockpits might be far more
forgiving
and I'd certainly defer to someone like Ed Rasmussen, who'd be far more
knowledgeable than I on that subject. Anyway, one might be forgiven for
wondering what Udell's supervisors thought of him, and if Udell admired
Bush so
much because they were cut from the same cloth and excelled at juvenile
drinking
games in the O Club bar.


You might want to ask Chad Hennings about size and fighter cockpits.
6'6", 291, A-10 pilot, Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle.

(ok...the A-10 is not a 'fighter' in the classic sense, but neither is it a
tanker, transport, or bomber)

Pete