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9th Jul 2010, 09:39

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Wizofoz

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Hi rudder,

Have you considered that if you were in a fast elevator, accelerating towards the earth with an accelaration of 19.6m/s2, you'd be standing on the roof with no way of knowing that you weren't stationary, upright wrt the surface of the earth?

Or this- what AofA would an aircraft, flying inverted, have to achieve in order to show +1g on its g meter?

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