G-Force (aka Gatchaman)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Angels
http://travel.thefuntimesguide.com/2008/02/g_force_pulling_gs.php
The pilots can pull about 12 G’s max.
Doubt if they would pull more then 3 to 5 with an untrained person in the back seat.
You mean they don’t wear G-suits???? Wow! I never heard that, I assumed G-suits were a necessity doing what they do.
My Daughter and I were watching an air show in Tulsa. After a while we got tired and found a place to sit on some broken concrete near a hot dog stand.
As we were sitting there, several Thunderbirds drove up in, what else, Thunderbirds. They were wearing just loose fitting coveralls. They bought hot dogs, and immediately drove out to the waiting F-16s.
They ate hot dogs just before flying!
Anything much more than 3-4 Gs would probably get your pax very unhappy and disoriented.
Cockpits are designed to accommodate G suits. They’re not like space suits - more like a set of tight fitting chaps worn over your flight suit. There would be no reason not to wear one. There’s an air hose which you connect to the aircraft when you sit down. The suit has bladders inside it; as the G force increases, the suit inflates and keeps the blood from pooling in the legs. Back off on the Gs, and the bladders deflate.
To some degree, you can counteract the pooling of blood in the legs by tightening the leg and body muscles. It’s called an Anti-G Straining Maneuver (AGSM). Look that up.
OH FOR JIMINY CRICKETS!!
Whoever informed the author of this inquiry that ‘the pilots don’t wear G-suits ‘because it would interfere with the control of the stick’, must still be flying the last version of a simflight computer gasme!!!!!
The maneuvers that the Blue Angels, the Thunderbirds, and ALL military jet pilots perform, are flight school, and, combat maneuvers, to demonstrate the agility of the airframe, which means that they MUST, by military flight regs, wear a G-suit.
Oh, BYW, it is no longer the design G-suit that the pilot standing next to a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, with all the externAL tubibg. It is an extended vest and upper thigh covering, which compresses to keep the blood into the torso and to the head, to prevent blackouts.
Yes, the pilots can pull 9 or more g’s, and yes, with an untrained backseat rider, the G’s will be less. But still, if they offer you a large meal before flying ... take my advice and don’t. It will allow the ground crew an easier time cleaning up that rear cockpit area, from all of your, um, blessings!
I knew a guy that bet a Blue Angel pilot a case f beer that he couldn’t make him throw up. Big mistake. He threw up for several days.
Not wearing a G-suit cannot help.
Blue Angels don’t wear G-suits because the inflation and deflation messes with their control of the aircraft.
From a simple Google search of “do Blue Angels wear G suits”
top response
http://www.blueangels.navy.mil/show/faq.aspx
G-suits are designed with air bladders (pockets) that inflate and deflate to keep a pilot’s blood from pooling in the pilots’ legs while executing sharp, unpredicted combat maneuvers. Unlike combat flying, the Blue Angels demonstration pilots know the maneuvers they will fly prior to execution, so each pilot knows when one will be experiencing heavy gravitational forces. Anticipating the changes in gravitational forces allows the Blue Angels demonstration pilots to combat G-forces with muscle contractions. Additionally, G-suits would detrimentally impact flight safety.The Boeing F/A-18’s control stick is mounted between the pilot’s legs. The Blue Angels have a spring tensioned with 40 pounds of pressure installed on the control stick that gives the pilot a “false feel.” This allows the pilot minimal room for un-commanded movement. The pilots rest their right arms on their thighs for support and stability while flying. Therefore, inflating and deflating air bladders in a G-suit would interrupt this support and stability, causing un-commanded aircraft movement.