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Old 26th Aug 2015, 11:02
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Courtney Mil
 
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Originally Posted by nipva
Despite many hundreds of hours on Hunters I cannot recall if the T7's anti-g supply is the same as the single-seaters i.e. an accumulator or if it is supplied with bleed air. I do recall that it was quite disconcerting on a range sortie to suddenly run out of anti-g usually on pulling off the target.

My apologies if this has already been covered
It has been. Post320. Here you go.

Originally Posted by BEgle
The Hunter 7 has a gaseous anti-g system; if that fails unexpectedly you might well grey out. But it's a pretty reliable system and the +g available in the accident manoeuvre would seem to have been less than would cause the pilot to lose consciousness if the anti-g system failed.
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