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> …to withstand the incomprehensible forces felt by the human body when ejecting from an aircraft… Whatever floats their goat but there is nothing incomprehens
by krisoft 4y ago
> …to withstand the incomprehensible forces felt by the human body when ejecting from an aircraft…
Whatever floats their goat but there is nothing incomprehensible about the forces experienced during an ejection.
The accelerations are rougly on the order of ~10G. Roughly the same as a car crash. Not something you want to experience, but far from incomprehensible.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoLarge animals are pretty flimsy. If a human can survive something reliably it shouldn't be hard to build a wristwatch that can do it all day every day.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoIndeed, a watch simply falling to the floor will incur a lot more than 10G :)
- geoduck14 4y agoCollectively, we just asserted that "ejecting from an airplane is similar to falling on the ground from 6 feet". This doesn't sound right. Surely pilots who eject go through harder stuff than falling on the ground.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoThere's a big difference between something hard like a watch falling on a hard surface, to this happening to a human. We have a lot of padding that distributes the force. A watch does not so the G-force is shorter and sharper. A 6-foot fall is nothing to laugh at by the way. I think it might be similar in terms of G-force, just momentarily while an ejection seat will have a longer boost duration.
- belter 4y agoA good overview of what you go through during ejection. "Standby for Ejection!": https://youtu.be/5QF2F51adjA https://youtu.be/5QF2F51adjA