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