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Offline RTR

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Re: Aerobatic pilots G tolerance?
« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2011, 12:40:33 AM »
Eagl has it right. He knows.

I myself know that I go out like a light bulb at 7.5G, and yep even with a G-suit.

That being said, our fighter pilots (and yours too) are able to keep flying and fighting at 7.5 G. For how long...you'd have to ask eagl, but I can tell you that the guys I flew with were able to keep their head up and in the fight at over 7G. This is not a sustained loading though.

It is important to know that the high G experienced by most fighter pilots are not sustained very long at those high numbers. Neither are they sustained very long by aerobatic pilots.

At any rate the ability of the aircraft surpassed the ability of the pilot years ago.

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Re: Aerobatic pilots G tolerance?
« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2011, 04:42:13 AM »
Nice read ...
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Re: Aerobatic pilots G tolerance?
« Reply #17 on: March 13, 2011, 10:50:54 AM »


 :rofl

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Re: Aerobatic pilots G tolerance?
« Reply #18 on: March 13, 2011, 02:46:57 PM »
eeewwwwww  :rofl
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Re: Aerobatic pilots G tolerance?
« Reply #19 on: March 13, 2011, 03:02:56 PM »

 :rofl



Negative Gs are not fun, and I could never understand why someone would take unprepared passengers on board for such a flight.
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Re: Aerobatic pilots G tolerance?
« Reply #20 on: March 13, 2011, 04:11:06 PM »
to laugh when they puke...duh
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Re: Aerobatic pilots G tolerance?
« Reply #21 on: March 13, 2011, 04:50:30 PM »
to laugh when they puke...duh

Sure the video is funny, but I'm trying to figure out why did they do it originally.
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"Now, if I had to make the choice of one fighter aircraft above all the others...it would be, without any doubt, the world's greatest propeller driven flying machine - the magnificent and immortal Spitfire."
Lt. Col. William R. Dunn
flew Spitfires, Hurricanes, P-51s, P-47s, and F-4s