Originally posted by Guppy35
My understanding is 9Gs was the limit although pilots pulled more in it.
Randy Cunningham in an F4J on his second Mig kill, says he pulled 12 Gs, breaking panals in the aircraft. Since I believe they had a G-meter to record this stuff, I would imagine he wasn't making it up
Dan/Slack
In 1983 I personally witnessed the G-meter of an F-4E that
had the carats at +10 and -8 on the same flight. It had incurred
these forces during a mock dogfight at Tyndall AFB.
The aircraft "lost" an AIM-7 sparrow launcher that completely
departed the aircraft. Also all the engine mount bolts had
"broken" and the engines were resting on the gear doors.
Needless to say this was one crazy SOB, but the F-5 that was
chasing him didn't catch him
