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Deceleration numbers

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jgnunn

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Aug 7, 2005
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Location
Jarrell, TX. Fly out of Taylor-T74
When you are moving at say, 60 knots, and you hit a brick wall, what level of force in g's would a pilot be exposed to?

and.. what level of g's are typically survivable?

I once decelerated from 146mph to 0 in <1 sec, during a nasty parachute canopy opening...
 
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