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Old 05-17-2019, 10:05   #1582
doctom54
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Originally Posted by tonyz View Post
My good friend’s son passed Centrifuge-based Flight Environment Training on 1st go yesterday !

Awesome job - everyone proud of him !
Congratulations to him.

I was in the Centrifuge 3 times and never liked it.

As an aside when the USAF adopted the F-16 they had to rebuild the centrifuges. The centrifuges up to that time would reach the 9Gs which the F-16 is limited to (because of the pilot not the airframe). However, the F-16 when clean will pull 3g/sec. In other words you can go from 1G to 9Gs in 3 seconds.
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