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  • The Italian automaker plans to rev up an arena more known for cartoon characters and superheroes when Ferrari World opens Wednesday with what the company says is the world's fastest roller coaster and a 20-story tower ride that duplicates the G-forces felt by race car drivers.

    Ferrari World To Open In Dubai The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The Italian automaker plans to rev up an arena more known for cartoon characters and superheroes when Ferrari World opens Wednesday with what the company says is the world's fastest roller coaster and a 20-story tower ride that duplicates the G-forces felt by race car drivers.

    Ferrari World To Open In Dubai Yahoo! News 2010

  • They would need protective clothing to counteract the effects of the G-forces pressing on the body during acceleration to 5,000mph.

    Experimental ‘Scramjet’ Sets Hypersonic Speed Record | Impact Lab 2010

  • The answer is because the pilot cannot otherwise tolerate the G-forces.

    Question of the Day: What Are The Coolest SF Space Battles You've Seen? 2010

  • G-forces pressed me into my seat, and I stayed that way until the Lear leveled at thirty-seven thousand feet.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

  • G-forces pressed me into my seat, and I stayed that way until the Lear leveled at thirty-seven thousand feet.

    Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011

  • Drivers in 1990 cars would fight crushing G-forces as they lurched from zero to 125 mph and back to zero in less than seven seconds.

    'Aggression With Lucidity' Richard B. Woodward 2011

  • You would just increase the thrust from the directional thrusters and use this to switch the G-forces back in forth along the human body's x & y axis while manouvering.

    Question of the Day: What Are The Coolest SF Space Battles You've Seen? 2010

  • Whistler's had to be short and tight, which meant high gravitational forces against the driver in the curves and, toward the end, because the G-forces would be too much to bear, almost no curves, allowing sleds to break through previous top speeds.

    Speed and Commerce Skewed Track's Design David Crawford 2010

  • Whistler's had to be short and tight, which meant high gravitational forces against the driver in the curves and, toward the end, because the G-forces would be too much to bear, almost no curves, allowing sleds to break through previous top speeds.

    Speed and Commerce Skewed Track's Design David Crawford 2010

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