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I learned me something today about torque-to-yield bolts.

FWIW on my 70 Rover, the Girling calipers required TTY, one time use bolts. Yield is "deformation strength" usually 50% of failure strength, if I remembe from my strenght of materials course...63y ago...
FWIW, aircraft g limits are, depending on type and use, 3.8 for airliners, I think 4.5 for general av, 6-7.33 for fighters until the advent of the F-16 in 1978, designed for 9.0, and protected by a g limiter. (Asymmetric g loads, as in a bank, are lower as the wing with the aileron down is under more stress. )The F-15 Eagle was designed for 7.33, but later extended to 9.0 at lower fuel state, with an increasing pitch warning horn. Typhoon, Rafale, Gripen all 9.0, but the F-18 world wide is a 7.5 g jet. Designed for 9g, but I think the airflow over the tail was causing buffet, leading to...a potential failure. USN is a 7.5G air force: the B vertical F-35, And F-35C catapult version are both 7.5. Only the USAF A model flies at 9G, as does the insuperable F-22 Raptor.
Also FWIW, staying awake at 9.0G is not just 20% more "strain", it is non-linear, and probably 50% more muscular effort...and pain for days after!
So I am wondering, what and how dose take for a pilot passed out from high G forces to recover, is it seconds, minutes, and is like a light switch or are they foggy?
Does it require 1 g or would say 4 g allow things to get back to normal?
And based on above, with all the computer power, AI, etc in the pipeline and in the planes, can the plane be controlled by the computer during a black out and recovery vs say flying into the ground?
 
Tom Cruise ran to over 9gs in Top gun Maverick and movies are real.
 
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