Seat pitch and comfort of a staggered seat configuration.

WHAT IT FOUND

This study examines aircraft seat comfort for a specific engineering project and has no application to clinical practice.

What this paper is

This is an engineering and ergonomics study investigating seat pitch and comfort in a novel aircraft design (the Flying-V). It reports on subjective comfort ratings and posture analysis of 53 participants in a mock-up. It contains no clinical interventions, no patient populations, and no outcomes relevant to physical therapy, occupational therapy, or speech-language pathology.

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