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31st Jul 2011, 10:45

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BOAC, I believe it's because 1G is acceleration due to gravity at sea level. The same acceleration at 40000ft might be 0.9999G (I'm sorry, I'm not clever enough to work out what it is) therefore to maintain 1G the aircraft will slowly pitch up.