WWII Fighter Plane Cutaway Showing Gravity Suit, 1945

WWII Fighter Plane Cutaway Showing Gravity Suit 1945
WWII Fighter Plane Cutaway Showing Gravity Suit 1945
WWII Fighter Plane Cutaway Showing Gravity Suit 1945
WWII Fighter Plane Cutaway Showing Gravity Suit 1945

A cutaway within a cutaway.  Drawn by Stewart Rouse, this illustrates a generic WWII fighter plane peeled back to show the pilot within.  Then the pilot’s gravity suit itself is peeled back to reveal some of its inner workings.

Bladders within the suit were inflated with air from the craft, to minimize the chance of pilot blackouts during hard turns.

Source:  Popular Science January 1945

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