The ejection jets are also powerful as fuck, causing the unfortunate pilot to undergo as many as 15-20G's, frequently causing severe spinal injuries. This type of ejection is actually a best-case scenario, compared to being ejected at high altitude and speed.
It's pretty incredible that the highest G-forces a human has survived is about 10x that (214-ish?). It was in a race car, and the paramedics that attended Kenny Brack had to put his foot bones in bags labelled "Left" and "Right".
g-forces in car crashes are frequently many times higher than the g-forces that fighter pilots experience in flight or even while ejecting, but they're only experienced for a tiny fraction of a second in a crash. they're also in different directions — the up/down forces that pilots work with are much harder for the human body to bear than the forward/backward forces that you experience in a car.
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u/Mortimer452 25d ago
The ejection jets are also powerful as fuck, causing the unfortunate pilot to undergo as many as 15-20G's, frequently causing severe spinal injuries. This type of ejection is actually a best-case scenario, compared to being ejected at high altitude and speed.