Physiologic and anti-G suit performance data from YF-16 flight tests.
Biomedical data were collected during high-G portions of 11 YF-16 test flights. Test pilots monitored revealed increased respiratory rate and volume, decreased tidal volume, and increased heart rate at higher G levels, with one pilot exhibiting various cardiac arrhythmias. Anti-G suit inflation and pressurization lags varied inversely with G-onset rate, and suit pressurization slope was near the design value.
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac; D006112:Gravitation; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D011312:Pressure; D011481:Protective Clothing / Q000592:standards*; D012123:Pulmonary Ventilation; D013026:Space Flight