Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!amethyst!europa!raymond From: raymond@europa (Raymond Man) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Can anyone identify these pictures (from this text description?) Message-ID: <1834@amethyst.math.arizona.edu> Date: 26 Jul 90 19:57:17 GMT Sender: news@amethyst.math.arizona.edu Reply-To: raymond@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu (Raymond Man) Distribution: na Organization: AME Dept., Univ. of Arizona at Tucson Lines: 28 In Alfred J. Broderick asked: > In the second picture his face is disfigured and in >last photo his face is very stretched and compressed generally all messed >up. >Does anyone know what was happening in this photo? and in <1122@larry.sal.wisc.edu> Tim Roberts wrote: >As I recall, the poor fellow was paid to look into the air blast coming >out of a mach 6 wind tunnell. helmetless ejections from very fast aircraft> I saw the test movies on >a television show called "The Sixties" and the guys eyelids swelled to >huge proportions as well as his cheeks. The coverings are real over his >eyes though. >He felt no acceleration since he was sitting still. I believe Tim is not making this as a post for rec.humor, but mach 6 air blast is too much to swallow. I do not know if erosion of the flesh or kinetic burning or impact concussion will kill the poor fellow first, but anyway it a spectacular way to go. From Alfred's description, I think it is about the human g-limit tolerance test done by an USAF colonel and probably there was a NASA type report on the results. I remember seeing similar pictures in a high school Physics text and also heard an AE professor talked about him. The colonel was probably the most macho man ever, volunteered himself for research and came back once with a broken limb and another with his eyeball in his palm, after it was popped out of it socket by the g-force. I regret that I can remember his name. Just call me `Man'. "And why take ye thought for " -- Matt. 6:28 raymond@jupiter.ame.arizona.edu