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The F-16 That Saved Its Unconscious Pilot

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May 5, 2016, over the desert Southwest. A student pilot in an Arizona Air National Guard F-16 rolls and pulls hard: 8.3 G. With no warning at all, he blacks out. His jet dives in full afterburner, nearly fifty degrees nose down and supersonic, while his instructor calls "Two, recover!" At 8,760 feet and 652 knots, the F-16 rolls itself upright and pulls out. He wakes up to the ground rushing at him, and lives. So how did a fighter save the pilot who was flying it? This is the story of G-LOC: what nine G does to the blood between the heart and the brain, why the eyes go first and why a fast pull gives no warning at all, the F-16's 30-degree seat and side stick, the G-suit, the straining maneuver and the centrifuge, and the problem that killed more fighter pilots than combat: flying a good airplane into the ground. And of the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System, the computer that waits until the last possible moment, then catches the pilot. 00:00 Cold open: unconscious at 8.3 G 00:53 Nine G 01:48 The blackout: G-LOC 03:04 The Viper 04:14 Fighting back 05:21 Flying into the ground 06:39 Auto-GCAS: a computer that watches 08:23 29 seconds over the desert 10:02 The Collier Trophy 10:37 The lesson SOURCES - Edwards Air Force Base, 412th Test Wing: "416th FLTS testers meet with Auto GCAS survivor" (1 September 2016) - Air Combat Command / Airman Magazine: "Point of Recovery: Ground Collision Avoidance System saving pilots lives" (9 December 2016) - The U.S. Air Force's release of the HUD footage of the 5 May 2016 save (the numbers on the HUD, as published by Aviation Week, 13 September 2016) - Air Force Research Laboratory: "AFMC team receives prestigious award for life-saving aircraft technology" (28 May 2019) and "Congressional report commends AFRL for life-saving collision avoidance technology" (1 July 2021) - Air Force Test Center history: "March 8, 2011: F-35 Automatic Collision Avoidance Technology" - U.S. Air Force fact sheet: F-16 Fighting Falcon - FAA: "Acceleration in Aviation: G-Force" (pilot safety brochure) - The centrifuge figures (how long pilots stay unconscious and confused) come from published aerospace-medicine studies of G-LOC FILM AND PHOTOS - U.S. Air Force and Department of Defense video via DVIDS (public domain): F-16 cockpit cameras in high-G training, the 711th Human Performance Wing's centrifuge at Wright-Patterson AFB, the anti-G straining maneuver, the Air Force Research Laboratory's F-16 simulator showing the Auto-GCAS warning and fly-up, Tucson, the 2018 Collier Trophy presentation - NASA photographs (public domain): the AFTI F-16 and the F-16D Automatic Collision Avoidance Technology aircraft - U.S. Air Force photographs via DVIDS (public domain) HOW WE MADE IT The narration voice is AI text-to-speech, reading our own researched script. The 2016 dive was not filmed from outside the jet: the 3D scenes of the dive, the recovery and the predicted pull-up path are our illustration (Blender, with the FlightGear F-16 model by Nikolai V. Chr. and contributors, GPL-2.0). The head-up display sequence is our re-creation from the numbers the Air Force published, not the real HUD tape; the desert seen through it, and under the 3D jet, is satellite imagery of southern Arizona. The cockpit footage shows other pilots in training, not the student of 2016. The diagrams are simplified: the dive profile between the published points is schematic. Maps and terrain imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless - https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016). Terrain heights: USGS 3DEP and NASA SRTM elevation data (public domain), via the AWS Terrain Tiles. CREDITS - Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ : Black Vortex, Cryptic Sorrow, Eternal Terminal, Controlled Chaos - no percussion, Vanishing, Shiny Tech2, The Escalation, Majestic Hills, Thaxted - Sound effects: Mixkit (free licence) GUST LOAD: why airplanes are built the way they are. One airplane, one question, every week. #F16 #GLOC #AviationHistory

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