Looks like you've concvinced yourself to put the glue tube
back in the tool box and bolt-er down solid.
Back in the 50's I remember reading in Popular Science and
seeing films on early TV of the tests they did with Rocket
sleds. Where they would accelerate the pilot to mach one in
a few seconds then stop them in about the same time with
water brakes. I don't remember the exact numbers, but I seem
to recall that the number they endured was something like
50 G's during the tests. And the test pilots walked away
unscathed.
Had they run the sled into a concrete wall, they would have
been scraping brains off the wall. Point is, it doesn't take
a whole lot of time to soften the deceleration, only a matter
of a few seconds. Body parts and mechanical systems hold
together much better when they are pulled rather than being
subject to an abrupt stop or jerk.
They give ya a day off to heal those ribs, did they????
DG
Last edited by Denny Graham; 01/07/2016 1:43 PM.
