Had a friend who was 5'6" (he said) who flew AD's way back when. He said " I can see the runway ahead of me or I can get full throw on the rudder. Can't do both at the same time. Another friend had been flying QT-33's for a year when they started measuring butt to knee. if he had ejected, he would have left his knee caps and toes on the canopy bow. There are reasons for the limits.
In 1960, while applying for NavCad program as an E-5 at Rota, Spain, USN assisted greatly by flying me down to Port Lyautey, Morocco on several occasions...once for the very basic (at that time) anthro work...
Height minimum at the time ~ 66"! Corpsman doing the workup was able to ink it in
only by measuring me very early in the day...after I'd been vertically hanging for a while from a horizontal bar! (Height this AM is 65 3/4").
First fleet a/c was the AD...was common knowledge in the squadron I had to unstrap and walk forward to drop the gear lever...(of course, I had "lifts" in my Brownshoes and flight boots...and carried two rudder blocks and a seat pad out to the a/c each hop...(j/k)
Squadron mates actually asked me to set the cockpit up when deplaning...crank the rudder pedals back down a bit, and drop the seat down to a more normal position...they hated rearranging everything after I flew a bird...
Negative G's were a slight problem...could not strap in anything (A1, A4, A7) tightly enough to be comfortable...but able to execute regardless...
Had an A4 squadron mate once who was just a tad shorter than me...
We survived!
OTOH, was on my very last flight in USN...on final at NLC in an A7, when tower advised an A4 was about to execute a controlled ejection 10 NM west of NAS...I waved off, and joined the furball...guy was an old acquaintance from my Spad days...and was huge! When PCS'ed to A4's, anthros had to convince him he'd
not lose body parts upon ejecting...he was the ejectee, and got out unscathed.