Now, how hard was that?
Right then, fitting that my first post in a while has a good story don't you think? Last week I took a little trip to DRDC Toronto - and I mean little, I flew in Tuesday and out again Thursday! All this for my high-G course. Jet folks in our air force get to look forward to spending some time getting up close and personal with this baby:
I'm sure you've heard stories of this kind of training, or seen it on TV or something. Let me tell you something; it's every bit as difficult as it looks! There is nothing natural about having your body accelerated to more than 6 times the normal force of gravity. In fact a lot of people end up looking like this:
So that's how not to do it, but this is what it looks like when you do it right:
You see, what I'm doing in this picture (besides looking really funny) is tensing all the muscles from my toes up to my chest. Then I take a big breath and push hard for two seconds before exchanging as much air as I can. I didn't need to go to the gym that day, I was tired enough after I stepped out of that giant torture device...
The best part of that Toronto trip was going out drinking with some of the boys afterwards. I got to see video of a little RC Hummer with a rocket strapped to it make some nice fireworks. (This is what Thys was doing while Lorne and I were drinking and watching hockey waiting for him to get to the hotel!) More drinking ensued, followed by going to some bars. Even better than the bar was the pizza place afterwards - we watched a hooker pick up these two suits, then this girl kept slapping some poor dude (he might have deserved it, who can say?) and we got to know said girl's friends. Unfortunately that's where the story ends - I got a couple hours of sleep then hopped a plane back West. Congrats to my bro who just a got a promotion up to First Officer flying B727's!
Standby for further, Maple Flag is just around the corner.....
cheers,
Dave
I'm sure you've heard stories of this kind of training, or seen it on TV or something. Let me tell you something; it's every bit as difficult as it looks! There is nothing natural about having your body accelerated to more than 6 times the normal force of gravity. In fact a lot of people end up looking like this:
So that's how not to do it, but this is what it looks like when you do it right:
You see, what I'm doing in this picture (besides looking really funny) is tensing all the muscles from my toes up to my chest. Then I take a big breath and push hard for two seconds before exchanging as much air as I can. I didn't need to go to the gym that day, I was tired enough after I stepped out of that giant torture device...The best part of that Toronto trip was going out drinking with some of the boys afterwards. I got to see video of a little RC Hummer with a rocket strapped to it make some nice fireworks. (This is what Thys was doing while Lorne and I were drinking and watching hockey waiting for him to get to the hotel!) More drinking ensued, followed by going to some bars. Even better than the bar was the pizza place afterwards - we watched a hooker pick up these two suits, then this girl kept slapping some poor dude (he might have deserved it, who can say?) and we got to know said girl's friends. Unfortunately that's where the story ends - I got a couple hours of sleep then hopped a plane back West. Congrats to my bro who just a got a promotion up to First Officer flying B727's!
Standby for further, Maple Flag is just around the corner.....
cheers,
Dave
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