At this age a person has lots of experience, but still maintains their full mental agility, ability to calculate and energy. It depends on what you mean by "optimal".įor a dogfight, the optimal age is probably 30. (I should add a small disclaimer that I know nothing about the military, so hopefully I didn't make any stupid mistakes in pulling or interpreting the data.)ġ To be specific, the search criteria I used were: Active Duty Air Force only (excludes Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve and civilians) officers only AFSC 11FX specialty (fighter pilot) only. ![]() ![]() But we can say that the USAF appears to consider 25-34 to be the 'optimal' age: 55% of their fighter pilots are in that bracket. Of course, this only applies to the USAF and it doesn't tell us anything about other branches of the military or about what other countries do. This isn't very fine-grained, but on the other hand we can immediately see that your example of someone over 50 is really at the extreme end of the curve: only 3.4% of fighter pilots are over 45. I used their report tool to get data on fighter pilots 1 and it shows this breakdown: 17-24 : 43 ![]() I can't directly tell you what's "optimal" because I don't know what that means, but the US Air Force does provide some basic demographic information so we can indirectly see what they consider to be a good age mix for fighter pilots.
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