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Lockheed Martin Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto GCAS): in this clip an F-16 pilot making a right turn loses consciousness at 8.4G and lets go of the stick. As the aircraft reaches 800mph, GCAS kicks in 3 seconds above the ground and performs a 9.1G recovery pull

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XLM1 year ago

getting 9Gs while unconscious hast to feel awful when you wake up

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andi (e/alb)1 year ago

feels better than the alternative tbh

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severe engineer1 year ago

holy smokes that thing hit 9 Gs fast

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andi (e/alb)1 year ago

“well he’s already going to be passed out might as well have fun with it”

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John Shedletsky1 year ago

This is why its ridiculous to have humans piloting these things.

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andi (e/alb)1 year ago

We’re behind several decades in aviation innovation because crazyman32 got poached by insurance instead of a defense co

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HIGH PLANES Drifter1 year ago

What’s really cool is that this actual save is just like the test I posted

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andi (e/alb)1 year ago

That's gotta be a career defining moment of pride for this team, to know they got this built on time ahead of schedule and nailed the UX and perfectly predicted exactly how it would work in practice

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Havoc Six1 year ago

Brutal

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andi (e/alb)1 year ago

hey havoc, nice to have you here, big fan!

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