China plans to up the height limit for its future pilots, according to Xinhuanet news service. Are Chinese growing taller? Maybe, but not by much overall, despite the occasional American basketball recruit. The proposed height increase is only 0.07 meters, or under 3/10ths of a foot. The current range for a male pilot is 5.4-5.8 feet. The new range will be 5.4-6.1 feet.
The Air Force wants to pump more than $12 billion over the next five years into its new affordable long-range missiles program and recently asked industry to push the flights of some of those munitions beyond 1,200 miles.