MANNED ROCKET SLED RUN
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2010
- From Episode 1 of our Discovery Channel series "Rocket Science":
Dr. John Paul Stapp's extraordinary 1954 rocket sled run.
(Full 13-part series available at www.foolishearthling.com) 
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Great man, before him the medical community accepted that 18Gs was probably lethal so there was no point in ejection seats. Now thanks to his sacrifice (lost ribs, eyes, bones), we know humans can at least survive 30Gs and up for a limited time, and more than 100Gs instantaneously, paving the way for ejection seats, seat belts, airbags and crumple zones.
To see if seatbelts was to use or not was tested a little more easier at Volvo. ruclips.net/video/mwaXQmjkau4/видео.html
Thx for explaining, I had no idea why the hell they did all this, other than being wicked cool.
Damn, his sacrifice really changed the world.
His work saved thousands of lives.
One tough and brave SOB, his contribution to flight science is inmeasurable .
He EARNED his rank.
In 2017, the famous rocket sled Sonic Wind 1 used by Colonel flight surgeon John Stapp in 1954, left the Alamogordo - New Mexico Museum of Space History to be apart of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
The deceleration at the end scares me about 100 times more then the acceleration and speed would. I mean holy fuck it goes from over 600 miles per hour to 0 in under a second. Thats FUCKING insane!
That’s what would kill, it woudl cause your organs to slam into the front of your body
That's 46 - G's
Meh, not a second. Its like 3-5. Under a second is you dropping a brick at hip height and it slamming on the ground flat.
Those extra seconds cushioned it. If it was a second he'd be dead or paralysed all the way
Still impressive af
What can a person say? I'm speechless. I guess some guys run for cover, and some guys go and have a closer look. Dr. Stapp is one hell of a man! wow.
46G’s Holy Molly
Got more balls then anyone i ever met
*had
True
Hardcore Daredevil
A REAL stunt man!
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How many scientists would test themselves to this degree? Incredible man,
thats gotta be a really powerful sled to even move in the first place with such balls of steel weighing it down.
Amazing guy. Willing to put his own body on the line for science and the benefit of mankind. A pioneer in every sense of the word.
I can't imagine the adrenaline and anxiety this man felt right before his epic run!
They don't make em like that anymore..One bad a$$ Man..I have such an amazing respect for men like him and all of of the other test pilots of that era..
True pioneers of the unknown.....
I and my family lived in Barstow California when then run took place, and I can remember that the entire town of Barstow, and even the surrounding communities were TOTALLY AMAZED at this run. It is amazing for me to finally see the man who did it so many years later. (July 2023). Hats off, and a big salute to him. Go America. Doctor George Whitehead
What a hero! Thank you sir!!
Can't help but like a guy like that, he's my buddy for life 😎👍
This is amazing. I wish people knew more about this
Speechless. I've got my mind blown.
You know it's going to be an interesting day when a couple guys strap rockets on your back and run for a concrete bunker. In the hospital, both eyes swollen and bleeding, with numerous strange injuries, and he smiles and laughs. People like him are just wired differently.
He got paid with knowing that what he did would save lives for years (as it turns out, probably centuries or more) to come, because hard science like this is the stuff that really changes human knowledge. On top of saving lives, he received honor and respect that will continue for as long as humans are around. He actually volunteered because he didn't want others to have to suffer through such intense tests. Him having balls of steel is a candidate for understatement of the year; i'ts Jan. 4th.
Outstanding!
@sciencehighway I saw these films 'live' as a 5 y.o. in the Saturday minors matinee on Wharncliffe Rd, London, Ontario,1957-58, as a brief emigree from Belfast, UK. They were beyond cool. I recall the hooha about Sputnik overhead. US nuclear surface tests just 1800 miles south west at Alamogordo, NM. There's a RUclips video of a US pilot who lost control and ejected over the sea during a Gulf of Mexico exercise. At an estimated 800mph his body was almost ripped apart . His buddy died. RIP.
What a time to be alive!
G-man
thats my drug dealers name lmao
Wow hats off to Joe Kittinger for continuing the program with Red Bull and Felix.
he sure can.. STAAP on a dime! aaahahaha hahaha .. ha.. < see what i did there.. i sure cant sthaap laughing at that one!
Actually Dr. Stapp not only would have loved that one, but he undoubtedly said it himself on numerous occasions. He was an irrepressible jokester - in fact one of his published works was a book of pun-laden verse.
Stapp is credited with creating Stapp's Law (or Stapp's Ironic Paradox) during his work on the project. It states: "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle."[10]
Stapp was an inveterate collector of aphorisms and adages, kept a logbook of such, and the practice spread to his entire working group. He published a collection of these in 1992.[8] Stapp is credited with being the popularizer, as well as of the author of the final form of the principle known as Murphy's law, "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." [9]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stapp
Speechless. Respect.
Dude knew he could buck the "Mahogany Desk" crowd because he was far more valuable in service than they were. He had huge brass balls to lay it down for those tests. Big respect to this guy.
Dude is my freaking hero.
I'm always awed at the way the water is just blasted out to the sides like that at 1:26. For those who don't know, that's how they slowed him down so fast. The sled had scoops on it that hit a trough of water under the track and shot the water out the sides to create an enormous amount of drag.
614 MPH, 46.2 negative g forces making him momentarily weigh almost 8,000 lbs and wearing no protective equipment!!
1:24 seems to show it going mostly sideways, although it may be a bit forward, which would add a little forward component to the momentum, but I don't think it's a full 180 degrees forward, at least not on this run.
Water truly is a miraculous substance.
I’ve always found that most senior executives are weak at taking on a challenge, but this man was the opposite. Best not fly with the weak, best be who you are.
@mageac There were, both before and after this series of experiments, at both Holloman and Edwards AFB. But they all utilized shorter tracks, slower speeds and far less acceleration/deceleration. John Stapp remains the only man to have ridden the Sonic Wind series of runs, in part (as he often explained) because he wasn't prepared to let anyone else do something he wouldn't. BTW the track still exists. Now 10 miles long, it's used to test ejection seats, missile impacts and hypersonic maglev.
This takes ‘for science’ to a whole new level
Absolutely right and very well put! Abstract knowledge remains abstract only until its myriad uses reveal themselves to the original experimenters and others down the line, which is how our technology (and civilization) evolves. (The laser is a perfect example of this. No use was initially foreseen. How many of the ubiquitous things surround you now?) If only the government, military and commercial interests which fund most scientific research understood this phenomenon as clearly as you do.
What a legend!
very freaking cool!
True American hero.
Built beyond different
That's crazy! The days safety gear must have been quite good. F1-drivers these days get 50-100g crashes with "survival" cells and walk out almost without scratch. I would take a 300kph crash with and f1 car any day rather than slowing down from 1000kmh to 0 in 1 sec!
Brave guys!!
The definition of Balls to the Wall.
That picture drawing of him in times magazine is legendary
Bless his heart
4 days ago Grosjean did crash at 56G in F1.
This guy is a legend
1:25 u can actually feel the G's 😲🤯
1:26 seems to hit the point harder. just a youtube preload thing. (My eyes popped while I pooped watching that the first time)
or even 1:27
@mageac Actually the rapid deceleration is not a side-effect but the main purpose of the experiment. Dr. Stapp was conducting research to determine a pilot's chances of survival after ejecting from a jet near the speed of sound, which involves decelerating into a solid wall of air once the charge fires. "The Highest Step In The World", our Discovery Channel film this scene hails from makes that point but I guess it didn't translate to the clip. Sorry about that and thanks for pointing it out.
Wow, I remember seeing video of this as a young kid a looong time ago
Amazing.
This guy had balls the size of nebraska. They probably weighed just as much too. 😲
That is one tough mother of a test Pilot /Dummy !
Respect.
Muito bom!
The very bravest of all x
Editing. All the rocket sled footage in this episode is from Dr. Stapp's many runs between 1947 and 1954, but peripheral footage, also known as B-Roll, (the stuff we employ to tie the story together) tends to be less specific. This particular shot was the only one we could find of an ambulance at Holloman AFB, and I can also reveal that it was a major pain to work with - gate weave, jitter and other nastiness. (Damn, I knew that bloody ambulance shot wasn't through messing with me...)
My question is….how did they fit his huge steel balls into that sled? Absolutely fearless.
@sciencehighway man that is crazy. That's a real American right there.
Respect
demaciado genial ese hombre
Oxi , acabei de ver que o cara é brasileiro, mano nasceu na minha terra kkkkkkkkkkkkkk q orgulho
00:24 beautiful ambulance
@mageac Indeed it is. We actually covered some of the modern era tests in another of our films, "The Land of Space and Time". You'll find a bit of that in the RUclips clips "Holloman High-speed test track" and "Holloman High Speed Track - then and now", with more information and links available on our website (google Foolish Earthling Productions.)
Dr Stapp also came up with the padded dashes in cars
That must have fuc##d up his eyes
Temporary vision loss, some days after - everything he saw looked like it was through a light red/crimson filter until the blood that rushed into his eyes eventually dissipated.
Thanks for this. I thought he went blind.
Yes they do, based in part by studies conducted by Stapp as well as early Mercury tests. But Stapp's sled experiments involved negative Gs - the eyeballs-out kind pulled during sudden deceleration, eg. ejecting from a Mach II jet into a solid wall of air. Air Force doctrine specified 18 negative Gs as the max a human could endure. Stapp proved them wrong, and was the only man to pull such loads, ever. His work also led to seat belts in cars, an impact environment previously thought unsurvivable.
It does take guts to get on that sled the first time, but that is nothing compared to the guts required when you know how much it is going to hurt.
A true rocket man
Even if he wanted out of the rocket while it was still going, he couldn’t Stapp.
@tameirao Yes he was...to American missionary parents who moved back to Texas shortly thereafter. I knew Dr. Stapp towards the end of his life and interviewed him extensively for the Discovery Channel special the clip derives from. While he viewed his childhood years in Brazil to be formative, Dr. Stapp did not consider himself to be from Brazil.
Could be. Music etc. was original for this pilot episode but I think we used a stock countdown - and probably used the darn thing again once or twice during the series that followed.
@sciencehighway yeah ive seen a few modern rocket tests, looked to be the same area
-46 G’s. Holy shit balls.
That man is crazy
Rocket Man
Besides getting super Fucked up from this, can you imagine how fun it would be to go 600MPH. Besides the absurd amount of Stress from accelerating and stopping so fast
At that deceleration I would have expected to see my insides continue the journey.
An American hero...
Just his standard U.S. Air Force Colonel's salary. (He annoyed far too many top brass to make General.)
@tameirao Actually Dr. Stapp was American, though as a child he lived in Brazil with his missionary parents.
Holy Crap, how much did he get paid for enduring this?
This is a lot like how the Grinch used himself as a test dummy in the live action How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
That's from Rocket Science the DVD's. You could watch it today since school is closed cause the rain has taxed it out. Sides all your teachers called in sick, to go out shopping.
Smartest man alive
It’s bad ass men like this that fought in WW2 and fought for the American dream and made it possible for all of us to experience freedom.
gen z 2023 starbucks employees start crying when they get work scheduals they dont like....
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So they had powerful cameras back then, I wonder do they have cameras now that we will see 20-30 years after..
Wow.
1:22 when you see a cop while speeding on the highway
Kevlar was first developed at this time, for the manufacture a harness capable of restraining his balls.
Oh come on, how could a such a sweet harmless old man make folks hate him? It wasn't the scientists?
Ditto that. Balls of steel, balls of stone.
Hello, I'm John Stapp and this is the "rocket sled run"
@blackcr125 We thought long and hard about including some of those details in the Rocket Science episode "The Highest Step In The World" (from which this clip hails) but ultimately decided against doing so for a wide variety of reasons, none of which have changed. Dr. Stapp certainly wasn't afraid to discuss it, and I've disclosed some details during lecture Q&As, but given the nature of the debates that rage on this forum I don't think this is the best place to get into it. Sorry.
@BrocKakaBrok Despite the radiation-shield shades he wore during our interviews (mostly to guard against the New Mexico sun) Dr. Stapp's vision was largely unaffected by these experiments. The severe bruising and black eyes he repeatedly suffered would heal, though the 1954 run shown here left a small but permanent blind spot in one eye.
Glad to know thank you
cOoL
Wow
Dr. John Paul, you had those old fashioned cast iron balls. They don't make those anymore.
No. Titanium.
*stapp is a real hero....i wonder if he has a statue somewhere*
No but there is a statue of a cross dressing homeless man in Austin TX ..
And the really sad irony of course that he tragically died falling out a stationary wheelchair.
Nice to see Joe Kittinger? (See my little icon to the left)
That deceleration at 1:26 was fucking horrifying...
When you're studying AP Physics and you come to a problem solely dedicated to this man's experiments...
Ok I've heard that clip at 0:39 definitely somewhere before... I think a dubstep song?
How did his retinas not tear?