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...fighter pilot. Yesterday's Mustangs and Thunderbolts, fighting a far lower speed than today's jets, were fast enough so that in tight turns or quick pullouts a pilot was sometimes subjected to more than four times the pull of gravity-in airmen's language, four Gs. And at 4.2 Gs the average man begins to "grey out." Blood drains from his head. His sight begins to blur. At more than five Gs, he may black out completely...
...suit, a pilot could black out in a one-mile turn. But the best jets in Korea whip along far faster than that, and can fly smoothly through tighter turns. With a G-suit, the jet jockey can fight his plane to the limit. He can take the seven Gs developed in a 4,000-ft. turn at 650 m.p.h...
...Inspector will be Albert Pariow '54. Other players are Gregg as Mr. Birling, Sarah K. Levy '54 as Mrs. Birling. Danielle G. Holmgren '55 as their daughter, William White GS as their son, and Robert A. Munro '53 as Gerald Croft...
...EVENTS gs CQVER...
...Farbrigian, a mean, scraggy man who owns half the town, screeches at the commodore: "You'd better stop mountebanking round this town and clear out as soon as you can . . . There won't be a festival here . . . That's all." Another leading citizen d'gs into the commodore's naval record, finds it a sorry mess, and tries to bullyrag the old boy out of town...