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  • There was a book I found called Test Pilot. It’s a bunch of stories written by (you guessed it!) a test pilot in the 20s-30s who had a side job writing his tales for a newspaper between jobs. Great read!

    One time he was hired on by the Navy to do dive testing, which laid the groundwork for dive bombers and divebombing techniques. g suits weren’t a thing so his vision constantly blacked out each time, and sometimes he had to reach 9g on the pullouts! He wrote that the changes in air pressure and gs were great for hang overs.

    Today’s pilots are cool but these guys were a different breed

    (looked it up again on project gutenberg, edited the comment to match the real stories)