Jaw-Dropping G-Force Event: Witness the Record-Breaking Moment in Texas!

The whole idea of 'G-Force' and it's effect on humans has intrigued me since I was a kid and my granddad showed me a video of some guy in the Korean war-era doing g-force training. The guy's face was all contorted and he looked like he was being slowly killed in some crazy experiment.

My granddad told me about how g-forces work and explained why and how pilots train for super high g-force events. I was absolutely enamored with all things airplanes and THIS new aspect of what fighter pilots endure was sooo cool to me!

I came across this bit of g-force trivia while browsing Reddit the other day. It's the story of Kenny Brack...

Indycar driver Kenny Bräck survived a split-second deceleration of 214 g during a 220‑mph (354‑km/h) crash on lap 188 of the Chevy 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, USA, on 12 October 2003. This is according to data registered in Bräck’s in-car “crash violence recording system”.

Here's the video. (WARNING: it's pretty violent, as you could imagine)

What's interesting is that they actually have two different categories in the Guinness Book of World Records for g-force records: Non-voluntary (like Kenny Brack), and voluntary, like this guy...

This Eli Beeding lunatic voluntarily strapped himself to a freakin' ROCKET SLED and let them slam him into a wall! Shouldn't we name a post office or something after this American hero? He risked it all in the name of science and lived to tell the tale!

I was going to type out a whole paragraph explaining how g-forces really work, but this video did a great job explaining it...

You may notice that the test pilots make a weird sound as they go through higher and higher g-forces. Well, it's actually a technique that keeps them from passing out called the Hook Maneuver...

The current technique involves closing the glottis (the space between the vocal chords) during the strain. Students are taught to say the word "hook" or "hic" as they begin to strain to ensure a completely closed throat during the maneuver. The Hook gives the pilot a little over 1 G of tolerance.

And since we're watching videos of things coming to a complete stop, here's more!