![]() ![]() Catch car release simulated on last launch segment. I didn't spot a single one.Īcceleration- 0-120 MPH in under 4 seconds If you find any pumps in mine, please tell me. All you have to do is adjust the banking on your vertices in the spiral (3D mode works best) and then smoothen the track! One of the errors I found most often is that about 85-90 percent of every one of them uploaded had vertical spirals so pumpy that you could pump air through them! This is easy to fix. Then I made sure that mine did not have any of those flaws. To make this one of the most exact replications of TTD on the site, I have downloaded the majority of the other NL replications, and found the errors and flaws in them. I have ridden Top Thrill Dragster 4 times (2 being in the very front) and I must say that it is one of the most extreme rides that you could strap yourself onto! I have re-created Top Thrill Dragster for you using POV's, Pictures, Statistics, and, of course, my own memory. and was at the time (in 2003) the world's tallest and fastest continuous circuit roller coaster. nor race car drivers worry suchwise during high performance turnsįighter pilots in dogfights put their loads on the Y axis - and that indeed can be bad for, you know.If you do not already know, Top Thrill Dragster was the first roller coaster to top 400 ft. Now, direction is quite important for how much G's a person will take before becoming less productive than what his/her boss would require - astronauts sitting 'towards' the forces general direction wouldn't have to worry about blood rushing to their feet. Now, airline pilots are expected to try their best to avoid going out of a 0~2g 'window' - anything outside of that range is considered rather extreme flying conditionsĪnd remember, fighter pilots can reach 9g's and still maintain control because of some VERY intense training and the use of G-suits which inflate when high loads are detected by the aircraft (those compress one's legs to keep blood pumping to the head, rather than pushed down to one's feet)Īstronauts undergoing 7g's have that force directed mainly along their Z axis (that's the direction they're sitting towards - aka 'up' for someone watching the launch from the ground) but breathing is still largely unaffected at this point Remember, those things are designed for some the broadest definitions of the 'general public' you'll find in engineering, so that should give you a good guess of how much force you can put a 'normal' person through and still have them willing to pay to go againģ g's is really not bad, you can get that on an average theme park ride - you'll feel it, no doubt - and you might find that it takes a non-trivial amount of effort to keep your head facing up straight. I hear 4~5g's is considered among roller coaster designers to be a good general 'design ceiling' for such loads. That can be expensive, but presumably, if you are doing commercial space flights, you have the overhead to do that. But anything higher than that, you need special training, special suit, etc., and that doesn't really work for commercial space flight.Īs far as ways to reduce the G loads on re-entry, all you have to do is slow down with engines before you drop into atmo. You might be able to get away with 4 or 5 for a short duration. It's not that uncomfortable, and would be entirely acceptable for space tourism. All depends on how long the acceleration is maintained, what orientation the pilot is in, and whether you have any special seats and/or suits to assist him. At higher G loads, you can have blood vessels rupture in even shorter time, which can also lead to severe injuries or fatalities. If this condition is maintained for too long, brain damage can occur, followed by death. Typically, the first thing that happens is the pilot blacking out due to blood pooling at the extremities. It takes quite a bit before you start having actual tissue failure. Tens of G are entirely survivable if the duration is very short. Higher G loads can be pulled for certain maneuvers.Īnother factor is duration. Aircraft carrier take-off is going to be in the 6-8G range. 8G+ is not unheard of for fighter pilots. Hence the high G loads.ħG is not the limit of human tolerance, though. All that speed has to be bled off in atmosphere, which there isn't a whole lot of. Apollo did direct re-entry, which means the ship plummets into the atmosphere at the speed it gained "falling" from the Moon. ![]()
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