G-suit - Use in Red Bull Air Race

Use in Red Bull Air Race

Pilots in Red Bull Air Race World Championship wear g-suits called g-Race Suit since the 2009 season. The g-race suit is a liquid (water) filled, autonomous and aircraft independent working full-body g-protection system. It is tailor made for each pilot and can be fine adjusted via lacings.

The g-race suit contains four so-called "fluid muscles" that are liquid filled and sealed tubes. Each fluid muscle extends from the shoulder to the ankle. Two fluid muscles – each filled with app. 1 litre of fluid (total of app. 4 litres/ app. 1 US Gallon per g-race suit) - are routed vertically on the front side of the g-race suit and two are routed vertically on the rear side of the g-race suit. It weighs on average app. 6.5 kg/ 14 lbs in total and its fabric is made out of a special mix of Twaron and Nomex. The counter pressure effect occurs instantaneously without any time delay versus standard pneumatic, inflatable g-suits have an up to 2 second time delay before reaching full system protection. The race pilot utilizes the g-race suit interactively by muscle straining and breathing techniques to achieve an improved cardiac output and thus improved G-protection.