Founded on a desire to investigate the effect of G-forces on Spitfire aircrew, QinetiQ's 50 year old man-carrying centrifuge is training Eurofighter pilots and astronauts. Over the past fifty years the centrifuge has carried out in excess of 70,000 'runs' and played a crucial role in developing a greater understanding of the effects of high G-forces on the human body and the countermeasures to protect against them. All of the anti-G systems currently used by RAF fast-jet aircrew have been developed and tested at the Farnborough centrifuge.


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    Titel :

    Centrifuge comes full circle


    Beteiligte:
    McMath, I. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Engineering Technology ; 8 , 10 ; 47-50


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2005


    Format / Umfang :

    4 Seiten



    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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