Originally Posted by crockett

You are insane if you think the human body can with stand 9 or 10 g's with out using a pressure suit and not black out, specially when you aren't prepared and it happens as fast as it did to him.. I dunno if Red Bull racers use pressure suits, but I know the guys in flying at Reno don't and no one specially a 74 year old man is gonna take 9 G's instantly like that with out blacking out.

Not to mention there is a difference in positive & negative G's. You can take much more positive G's which is G for pushing you down, where as negative G it's about 3 before you black out. I'd assume during the process if the plane rolling & stalling he certainly experienced both positive & negative G's.

The exact same thing happened to another P-51 a few years ago at a difference race when his trim tab broke off and it was a 40 year old man. His aircraft went into a steep climb and he also blacked out and woke up a almost 10k ft. The only reason he didn't also crash is because his aircraft kept climbing.

To give you an example of what 9 G's is.. If you look at some of those pictures, the rear tail wheel is out. That's because the G load the plane was in, over came the pressure lock of the hydrolic system and pushed the wheel out. That only happens at 9G plus and you really think that the Human body is still going to pump blood to the brain if taking that amount of force?

It's one thing if you have a G-suit on the minimize the pressure and "know" it's coming, but there is no way that pilot was awake. Not to mention most of the photo evidence shows him slumped over in the cockpit, which is pretty damning evidence in it's self that he was blacked out.