Galliford Try was principal contractor for a new high G-gorce training facility at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire: the first facility of its kind for fast jet fighter pilots to be built in the UK since the 1950s, and I was excited to be involved in this unique project.Pilots flying the Hawk, Typhoon or new F35 Lighting II aircraft can experience up to 9G - nine times the normal gravitational pull of the Earth. The new facility was needed to train RAF and Royal Navy pilots to counter the effects of these forces on their bodies during combat missions. The new 39 tonne centrifuge will accelerate from zero to 9G in one second when it comes into operation in October 2018, at which point it will be travelling at 58mph and rotating 34 times a minute.
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