I was contacted by the United States Air Force Thunderbirds and they asked me if I wanted to fly an F16. I said yes.

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I Flew This F-16 and Pulled 9 G&#39;s

the united states air force thunderbirds reached out and asked if i was ready to fly in an f-16 i reluctantly said yes i'm gonna pass out i mean there's there's no other way about it i'm going to pass out that's just going to drain out your skull i'm a little dizzy we can uh okay take a quick pause do you feel like you have an elephant sitting on your chest one two three one two three one two three had to wake up 4am so you can bet i didn't sleep much even though the explicit instructions were sleep a good night's sleep they also said have a heavy breakfast or at least a good breakfast i had a protein bar oh and a banana we're trying to enter the air force base but apparently they said we don't know who you are apparently the pentagon did not send our clearance through to this spot right here and because of that oh my god plane landing i was afraid to do this what was i afraid of you may ask well the heights for one then not knowing what it's gonna feel like two and three i was worried about g-lock g-force induced loss of consciousness okay first of all what is g-force g-force is a poorly received 2009 disney film about a team of secret agent guinea pigs g-force is also a measurement of the force of gravity on our bodies in everyday life we have one g of force on us that's the earth's standard force of gravity our bodies are well acclimated to this so we're gonna get you up to nine g's today a really wicked roller coaster it's like three to four g's give or take at one g let's say you weigh 200 pounds at nine g's you can weigh 1800 pounds please do what gravity tells them to in this case the blood is gonna drain out of your skull so as your heart beats it's trying to have the blood move up but there's way too much force pushing it down as a result you don't get enough circulation you don't get enough oxygen going to the brain you g-lock you pass out how you feeling sir the only way to fight that one i'm gonna be wearing a very special suit that helps squeeze my lower body in order to help push some of this blood back up into my body the second thing is something known as the anti-g straining maneuver ready now good good good clench good clenching basically what i needed to do learn to squeeze my entire lower body and try and keep my blood up here and you're doing a breathing technique where you're exhaling very short breaths against a closed glottis one two three one two three one two three because if you don't if you let's say go good luck taking a big deep breath in you feel like you have an elephant sitting on your chest this will be the t-shirt you wear underneath this is gonna be your flight suit so it's like one big pajama onesie okay and then these are your boots size 11. okay yep all right they make it sound so easy sam no it's not you said you'll be giggling at nine g's i think i somehow don't think that's it wait didn't you say can't have synthetics on i think i'm wearing synthetic underwear i haven't worn boots like this ever well i would not be a good soldier everyone who wears this patch we have to work our way up to it so it's an honor to wear this patch and today you get to work i am ready to not eject out of this aircraft okay perfect good do you feel like you have a good seal yeah inhale hold one two three exhale yep and take the helmet off perfect they taught me about the eject lever in between my legs but they also consistently told me do not pull it unless you truly need to eject apparently someone in the past they were so anxious being inside the cockpit that they just pulled it to escape out next walks in lieutenant colonel kevin defalco and he tells me everything we're about to do in this plane and i'm not gonna lie my anxiety was at an all-time high i'm gonna pass out i mean there's there's no other way about it i'm gonna pass out you'll be fine i promise if i can do it you can do it i'm like 5-1 yeah but that makes it better for you you're more protected from the g-forces short and female to be honest like they sound very reassuring when they talk to you but i think that the reassurance maybe one of those like make him think he'll be okay so he will be okay so i don't think i'm gonna be okay but i i might be okay the storm i've been gone is a while but don't be scared right now i don't know if i'll ever famous last words this was a bad idea there's 250 miles an hour final at the ground speed we're going 395 miles per hour ground speed ready to go yeah all right good breath here come the cheese i'm starting to lose my vision my heart is working in overdrive to try and bring the blood back from my lower body to my brain all right next we're going to go into a loop you ready go for the loop okay good breath [Music] staring inside the cockpit was a really bad idea it caused a sensory conflict between what my eyes were seeing and what my inner equilibrium was feeling as a result i got really nauseous gonna bring it all the way through we're gonna keep going you can see our smoke there's our smoke look up and you can see the smoke there's our loop how about that pretty cool i'm a little dizzy we can uh okay take a quick pause all right we calibrate here yeah all right we're gonna get down here we're gonna do a knife edge next okay ready to go yep all right here we go we're just cruising along the clouds 90 degree angle nice and straight one key straight down now left side right yep here we go all right you ready to roll 360 degrees yeah here we go rolling it there we go inverted again take a look at the clouds how fast they're moving yeah good friends here come the cheese [Music] [Applause] [Music] he was a little nervous this morning about what the maneuvers are going to be like and how we were going to do but i'll tell you he got through the entire profile today we did everything because you're probably curious what he did in terms of g's he did pull 9.2 g's it could not have been done without everyone here so i have to give everyone a huge thank you for allowing me to participate this is a once in a lifetime experience that i'm going to be telling my followers my patients so thank you again and thank you gator for getting me back safely thanks for keeping keeping everybody healthy and happy and inspiring your followers to live a better life and that's important to us too i was so nervous i know i was a little worried you were so nervous during the briefings but after that first one i knew i could handle it yeah came close to graying out a couple of times but i noticed as i adjusted my muscles and i wasn't squeezing let's say my abdomen enough or my glutes enough once i adjusted right away the vision came back let's get this video to 100 000 likes let's continue our mission with the united states air force let's see some cool stuff let's see the medical side of it let's see what uh being a doctor in the air force is like i'm working and flying every day with my patients if you want to do that definitely hit like check out this video of me saving a life on an airplane or this video here where i actually fly a different airplane and hold some incredible animals actually interact with the animals like both are really good watches which one you're going to watch as always stay happy and healthy

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