FLITELite GEN II has a number of great improvements. One of them is that the angle on the light was changed from 0 degrees relative to the face of the light to 11.5 degrees. When the pilot adjust the light to point directly ahead, some flexible and wire microphone booms were too short for some pilots heads. We tested, and found that by offsetting the light eleven degrees, we were able to put the light in the proper position for pilots with even the largest craniums.

We used the largest pilot head we could find for testing. Marine Corps Major Chris Rosen provided the mellon and the engineers did the rest. Of course, cranium size and intellegence are not directly related in all mamals, Rosen is no exception:

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