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Old 19th Jan 2019, 21:58
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Salute!

For those interested in g-suits, the newer ones inflate very quickly and have an upper bladder across your chest, but are still not as effective preventing gee-loc if you do not clinch your neck and chest muscles before yanking on the stick. So we lost a "bird" last year cause he floated at zero or even slight negative gee, then yanked downward and poof! Classic gee-loc when looking at the flight recorder data ( yep, we had a simple one on the ejection seat even back in the pre-historic days when I got there in 1979)

https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/1...IVE_REPORT.PDF

It ain't the total gee until you get up there at 7 or 8 gees for more than 30 - 40 seconds, then you better be in good shape and grunt a lot. As an old man (41) at Red Flag one day I crossed a ridge and a bandit came over behind me. Clinched and then got to 8.7 gees on the HUD tape for maybe 5 seoncds or so. Hell, at 20 degrees per second I showed the guy the "bat turn".

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