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It only gives you two Gs or so. And the Blue Angels don't wear one, gets in the way since they have a spring tensioner added to allow more precise control inputs.
Last edited by SluggoF16; 06-12-2017 at 05:33 PM..
I worked with someone a number of years ago who was an engineer at Boeing. We talked about turbulence one day after a bumpy flight. He told me that if the turbulence was ever strong enough to rip the wings off of a plane, the passengers would be dead before it happened. On the larger planes (737 and up), it takes about 5G of force to shear the wings; humans would be dead before that.
You've probably heard this story, but in late '57 or early '58, on a trans-Atlantic Pan Am flight, a 707 went into a dive, loosing ~ 30k feet in altitude, recovering at about 6000 feet. During pull-out, it was later estimated that the airframe was subject to 5G (the airframe design limit for the 707 was 3.75 G).
Apparently, the wings were permanently bent up 2 inches at the tips, but no real airframe damage.
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