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Old 2nd Mar 2007, 10:20
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teeteringhead

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we had no G meters in those days.
... I remember an old Meatbox pilot once telling me that when accelerometers first arrived on the aircraft - they did so before the g-limits arrived...

...so of course every red-blooded fighter pilot went off to see what he could clock on his!
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