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Title: Svetlana Kapanina aerobatic display in Festa al Cel Barcelona Airshow 2011
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URL Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMVTIpfxKs4&feature=related
Published: Oct 3, 2011
Author: TUCKIE10
Post Date: 2012-08-16 03:37:51 by X-15
Keywords: aerobatics, airshow, aviation
Views: 423
Comments: 5
Svetlana Kapanina onboard cam when training for Festa al Cel Barcelona Airshow 2011, flying the Su-29 HA-YAS.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
She sat there like she was flying a desk. I didn't see her strain at all. ------------------------------------------ Whenever there's resistance, examine your motivation. Whenever there's flow, consider taking action.
In the 80s, I used to party with some Naval Flight Surgeons at AMA conventions. When I inquired if the Navy noted any male/female difference in the ability to "pull Gs", I was told women pilots can handle nearly twice the G- force a man can, both for positive and negative G-forces. Navy tried to correct for body mass and still came up with same result. It was not happy.
Twice? If memory serves, to be fighter pilots they need to pull 9g's without blacking out. Women cannot pull 18 g's. Or maybe I'm missing something here. But if they can pull more then they can pull more. I wonder what it is about female physiology that would explain that. ------------------------------------------ Whenever there's resistance, examine your motivation. Whenever there's flow, consider taking action.
I had to look it up. I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them ~ Thomas Jefferson
I suspect at higher G-forces the sex differential might be less severe. My thoughts on why, it might be related to childbirth. At birth, a woman's circulatory system goes through dramatic changes combined with significant blood loss and it must cope within seconds to minutes and maybe this ability confers a survival edge at a time when brain circulation must be maintained under stress. That's just supposition though.
Nice.
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