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I’m strapped into a modified F-15 fighter jet seat (Figure 4.1) inside a gondola (Figure 4.2) half the size of a Smart Car with my feet on a force plate and my eyes staring straight ahead at an X-Box-style representation of a chase plane. The gondola is attached to one end of the 6-m swing arm of Canada’s only human centrifuge (Figure 4.3), a $20 million piece of hardware located in Building 54 at Defence Research Development Canada Toronto (DRDC-T). Below me in the "Pit" is a 300-horsepower engine that causes the entire apparatus to spin on an axis inside a 19-m-wide circular bunker.
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Seedhouse, E. (2013). The G Machine. In: Pulling G. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3030-8_4
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