80+ G's?

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Re: 80+ G's?

Postby Rifleman » Wed Aug 10, 2005 10:12 am

Have any of you heard of John Paul Stapp ? I read about him as a teenager and never forgot his name.....

His bio is HERE

.......this is a small bit of it.......
[quote]By riding the decelerator sled himself, Dr. Stapp demonstrated that a human can withstand at least 45 G's in the forward position, with adequate harness. This is the highest known G force voluntarily encountered by a human. Dr. Stapp believed that the tolerance of humans to G force had not yet been reached in tests, and is, in fact, much greater than ordinarily thought possible.........

........The sled reached 632 miles per hour, decelerating to zero in a second and a quarter (1
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Re: 80+ G's?

Postby flyboy 28 » Wed Aug 10, 2005 11:11 am

We saw a video in physics last year, and it mentioned his name. It was about inertia and all that

I was just focused in on the 707 they used as a crash tester. ;D
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