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From: broderic@remus.rutgers.edu (Alfred J. Broderick)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Can anyone identify these pictures (from this text description?)
Keywords: rocket sled g-force distorted face
Message-ID: <Jul.24.02.02.22.1990.22224@remus.rutgers.edu>
Date: 24 Jul 90 06:02:22 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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(Sorry, this has nothing to do with the shuttle, but I thought you 
guys would know something about this...)

In a recent computer magazine advertisement there is a picture that looks
a lot like a rocket sled experiment.  The advertisement consists of
three
still photographs.  In the first photo there is the face of a very clean
cut looking white male, possibly in his early thirties, wearing some black
eye protectors.  In the second picture his face is disfigured and in
the
last photo his face is very stretched and compressed generally all messed
up.

Does anyone know what was happening in this photo?  (If I had a
scanner I
would post a bitmap for you.)  I want to know if the man in the photo
survived this experience okay.  When and why did the even take place?
Were the eye protectors added tothe photograph by an artist of did the
man really wear them in the experiment? (I think they look fake.)

If it is a picture of a rocket sled experiment, is there a book that has
more information on such experiments?

Thanks,

Alfred
broderic@rutgers.edu