Preston Flies with the Blue Angels

Awesome vid.. Not sure what the deal was with the crew chief showing him the AGSM. That is not the correct breathing method.
 
Patch said:
Awesome vid.. Not sure what the deal was with the crew chief showing him the AGSM. That is not the correct breathing method.
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Every Blue angel flight I saw on You Tube had them breathing like that.
 
Patch is correct, the crew chief is wrong. He has the dude making air exchanges too quickly and making the exchanges with his tounge is what it sounds like. The proper way for the AGSM is to start with the "hook" like sound to lock the air in from the glotis (sp?) and hold it in until you're on top of G. You then make air exchanges approximately every 3 seconds (not every second like that dude) with a kshh kind of sound that comes from the back of the throat. Not sure how to type that, but thats the idea.
 
rmciottijr said:
So what is the proper way?
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Take a breath, trap the air with your glottis, and make quick air exchanges (K sound) every 3-4 seconds making the "hook" sound. The "tsst" crap they're teaching every 1 second is wrong. You want to keep positive pressure in your lungs and make quick air exchanges under G, what they're doing is causing a loss of that pressure.

The rest is pretty correct - curl your toes, tighten your leg muscles (Squeeze the beachball) clench your butt, and tighten down your abs. He had his upper body too tense though, which is also incorrect.

Not sure what I expected though, he's a crew chief, not an aerospace physiologist or pilot. Not sure why they'd have him give the crew briefing.
 
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