Originally Posted by
Bing
Just reading an autobiography of an FAA pilot from WW2, they trialled water filled g-suits, essentially as you pulled g the water was forced into the lower parts of the suit pressing against the legs. They didn't seem to have been in service long though, his suspicion being due to a fatality after a ditching with one on. The less dense fresh water in the suit caused the survivors legs to float to the surface eventually drowning him. There was also the disadvantage in hot climates that you soon found yourself wearing a few kilos of warm water.
Indeed the case. My dear departed father flew Seafires with such turning trousers against the fiendish oriental hordes. As you say, I don't think they lasted long. (Both trousers and hordes!)
mog