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When the pilot is lying down, his blood tends to stay put because most of his body is on the same level. Air Force doctors have proved that a pilot in the prone position bed can take from ten to twelve "Gs"* of centrifugal force without blacking out. Four and one half Gs is about all a sitting pilot can take without a cumbersome G-suit...
...Range while tending sheep. . . . One passage sort of expresses the old-timers who spit tobacco into brass spittoons. . . ." But Trilogy had little picture painting about it: it was a well-knit if not wonderful symphony, with occasional ear-splitting eruptions of brass. Commented Detroit Critic Harvey Taylor: "Those 25 Gs could have fallen into much, much less able hands...
...plane, but not so fast that the sudden acceleration will injure the human spine or break the hip bones. The prospects for this look fairly good. Wright Field workers have proved by experiments on themselves, says Baldwin, "that a man can take even the forces of 20 'Gs' [20 times the force of gravity] on his hip bones for a very short period without damage...
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Even speeds now reachable, he mused, were pretty sticky for the pilots. "Bailing out is a bit of a problem. If a pilot bails out of a plane speeding 600 m.p.h., the air slows him down so suddenly that he gets a decelerating force of about 30 'Gs.' [Every part of his body weighs 30 times as much as normal.] This is a bit too much." To live, said Whittle, "the pilot will have to be tossed out in some sort of streamlined box," so he won't slow down too quickly...