Mythbusters: Adam files with the Blue Angels!

[mikea]

Adam flies with the Blue Angels and sees what damage they can do with progressively more intense sonic booms:

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-savage-test-flight.html

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/mythbusters.html

 

[Shipoke]

Adam flies with the Blue Angels and see what damage they can do progressively more intense sonic booms:

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-savage-test-flight.html

Well i sort of know how it fells, i took a ride with Chip in the Exrta 300 at Gastons. We did loops, rolls and a lamshivak ( excuse the spelling)
Dave G

 

[poadeleted20]

IIRC, they don't put g-suits on their passengers for the demo rides. Adam went to 7.3 sustained before he passed out. I used to be good to 4g easy without the suit, but beyond 6? Not much...

...but of course, an F-111 comes to a screeching halt when you pull that much, so it wasn't a really tactically useful maneuver, anyway -- better to turn tail and run at, say, 800 knots on the deck (where nobody can catch you but another 'vark) than to turn into a fight.

 

[TMetzinger]

So, did they bust the windows? I missed the show.

 

[Bob Noel]

Sort of. They busted the myth of sonic booms breaking glass.
One window broke because the pressure wave dislodged the
window frame.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

IIRC, they don't put g-suits on their passengers for the demo rides. Adam went to 7.3 sustained before he passed out. I used to be good to 4g easy without the suit, but beyond 6? Not much...

They don't use G-suits themselves either - Something about the combination of a center stick and inflating pants being a bad idea.

7.3 is pretty impressive without a suit! I haven't gone past about 4.75, but I could feel it - Dunno if I'd make 7!