How to Get Your G-Tolerance Up in the Air

They had to prepare for ejection, know what the right body position was because you can break your back if you're not sitting straight up and down. These are some of these people who have never jumped out of an airplane before or skydive so it would be a totally new thing. They could train to get out of the plane in a helicopter while being submerged and blindfolded. I mean, this is all done in a controlled environment of a swimming pool so that if something were to go horribly wrong, they'd have a chance at getting out of it. So that was a requirement just to get in the plane. Then you get to the acting part. It's a two