[article] Rain passes Red Muffler High-G Testing/Training with Flying Colors.

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(image: Sgt. Boot @militaryphotos.net/Water survival course at Fairchild A.F.B., Washington

I am so impressed!

I knew that the average civilian usually managed about 6-Gs of pressure, and that real jet pilots had to do at least 9 to 12 (the danger zone). So when I heard that JiHoon had successfully pulled 9-Gs, I about fell on my butt and immediately had a talk with my father, who is a retired 21-year U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant (he flew planes and worked with ammunitions).

Dad was pretty convinced that—and this is speculation, mind you—in addition to teaching JiHoon about his protective G-suit (that is programmed to constrict the abdomen, legs, and other parts of the body according to acceleration and to slow blood drain from the brain), and putting him through centrifugal force, the ROK A.F. trainers also needed to train him to escape a jet sunken under water and, if the movie’s insurance company allowed it, might have taken him up into a fake “dogfight.” (Don’t know if the insurers would risk his life like that, in an F-15, however. In Fugitive, they wouldn’t let him make the leap onto a moving flatbed truck, and that was on the ground. A more likely scenario is a dogfight in an amazingly real simulator.)

One thing that’s not speculation, I dare say… Rain’s character is going to be as real (if not MORE real) as any he’s ever played, because no doubt the man is absorbing everything a fighter pilot feels at any given moment. This is going to be some movie!

Do enjoy Terri’s article below. Great information…!

HelloKPop 3/19/2011 — by TerriKR, HelloKPop Chief Editor

Rain passes Red Muffler High-G Testing/Training with Flying Colors.

According to Star News and The Korea Defense Daily, Rain amazed spectators as he successfully withstood his High-G pilot testing at the ROK Aerospace Medical Center, in preparation for his role in the film, Red Muffler.

Rain and fellow actor Lee Jong Seok, who play combat pilots in the film, took part in special pilot training that included High-G force testing. Actress Shin Se Kyung and actors Yu Joon Sahng and Jung Kyung Ho, who weren’t yet scheduled for filming, dropped by the medical center to cheer on Rain and Jong Seok during their trials.

High-G training and testing subjects aviators and astronauts to high levels of acceleration and is designed to prevent a G-induced Loss Of Consciousness (G-LOC), a situation that can occur when g-forces move the blood away from the brain to the extent that the pilot loses consciousness. Rain was able to withstand 9g-forces, a level which is difficult even for highly-trained, physically fit pilots to handle without blacking out. The cast and crew also had to undergo background screenings by the Air Force Security Service, so that they could film some of the more crucial scenes on location at the 11th Air Force Combat Wing.

Red Muffler, a remake of the 1964 Korean film of the same name, is said to be a story about how mortal combat affects the lives and loves of the brave pilots of the Republic of Korea’s Air Force. Three weeks of filming on the airbase is scheduled to start on March 21. The movie is set for release in November 2011.

Sources:
Star News via Nate (English translation by rain bird of Rain Europe)
The Korea Defense Daily
ETC Aircrew Training

~ by Cloud USA on March 19, 2011.