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Because females only recently became fighter pilots, the literature contains very little information on female performance during high-sustained acceleration. The hypothesis of this research was that female subjects would have similar helmet pointing task performance during high-sustained acceleration compared to males. Five female and five male subjects performed simple and complex tracking tasks at 1.4, 4.0, and 6.5 Gz in a human centrifuge. There was no significant difference in helmet pointing performance between males and females under the different gravity (G) settings. Overall, male subjects performed 17% better but this difference was not statistically significant. Means followed trends where increasing helmet weight or a movement in the center of gravity away from a reference position resulted in poorer tracking performance; however, the mean differences were very small compared to the effects of task and Gz. |
