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Another ride with the Blue Angels

pho3n1xsays...

oh yes dag, very much so. referred to as a 'blackout', the g's pool the blood into your legs. in order to counter this effect, you must flex the HELL out of your legs, and you're supposed to tense every muscle you can in your lower body. usually grunting (as if constipated) helps as well.
usually pilots wear flight suits that automatically inflate in certain areas, to repel the bloodflow into the legs.
the Blue Angels, Thunderbirds, and the like do not use G-suits, because the air bladders inside them would repeatedly deflate and inflate. That would interfere with the control stick between a pilot's legs.

conversly, pulling negative G's has the possibility of causing a 'redout' which is due to the blood rushing INTO the brain and the eyes, thus causing the pilot to see red.

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