Content creator passes out after traveling at 300mph in a fighter jet
- Check out this footage of the content creator struggling through massive G Forces
- He then loses consciousness due to G-LOC
- However, he recovers more quickly than you might expect
Published on May 17, 2024 at 7:12 PM (UTC+4)
by Amelia Jean Hershman-Jones
Last updated on May 18, 2024 at 2:06 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Tom Wood
Check out the heart-stopping moment a content creator sitting in a fighter jet co-pilot seat passes out in the air due to the huge amounts of G-force experienced during a high-speed maneuver.
Content creator, aviation enthusiast, and jet-charter salesman, Alex Kowtun, momentarily lost consciousness.
It’s all down to a phenomenon known as G-LOC.
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Per Air & Space Forces Magazine, ‘G’ is a multiple of the gravitational pull of Earth which can affect blood flow to the brain in air combat, leading to a loss of consciousness.
The hobbyist pilot, based in West Palm Beach, Florida, US, was flying an Aero L-39 Albatros fighter jet trainer when the incident occurred in December 2019.
You can check out an RC version of that plane here.
Kowtun was taking part in an aerobatic piloting session by Scott Farnsworth, airline captain and owner of Farnsworth Aerosports.
The session that the TikTok video came from involved high-speed maneuvers at 483 km/h (300 mph) in the fighter jet.
After slumping and quickly regaining his faculties, the amateur pilot can be heard shouting: “Oh s**t”.
In response, Farnsworth asks: “Are you back?”.
Kowtun responds that he is fine.
It seems this isn’t the first time that Farnsworth has experienced his co-pilot suffering the effects of G-LOC.
“I had trained many times with Farnsworth, but for that flight, I wanted to push the jet to its limits and experience how that felt full force,” Kowtun said after the incident.
“It was the hardest G-pull of the day and I have zero memory of it, I completely passed out halfway through the turn, game over.”
Kowtun described the incident as ‘humbling’ and ‘a lifelong lesson’.
He also ‘thanked god’ that the other pilot was ‘better prepared’.
“‘If I had been flying the jet alone and passed out in a similar fashion, it would have been all over for me,” Kowtun admitted.
“This experience was the most memorable flight of my life, it reminded me that we are not invincible, it was an amazing ego check.”
And, speaking of G-force, this England to Australia could take just two hours on a new $430k flight.
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All Supercar Blondie contributors undergo editorial review and fact-checking to ensure accuracy and authority in automotive journalism. After gaining her BA Hons in French and English at the University of Nottingham, Amelia embarked on a vocational diploma from the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ). This led to numerous opportunities, from interning at Vogue to being on the small team that launched Women’s Health magazine in the UK, which was named the PPA Consumer magazine of the year for three years running. As Health, Beauty and Fitness editor, Amelia personally received a Johnson & Johnson Award and was shortlisted for both PPA and BSME titles. Since then, Amelia has created content for numerous titles and brands, including the Telegraph, 111 Skin, Waitrose, Red magazine, Stylist, and Elle, as well as being Head of Content at Vitality and Editor in Chief at INLondon magazine. “My superpower is translating technical jargon about the mechanical workings of a supercar into a relatable story you’ll want to share with your friends after you’ve read it.” After joining the SB Media family as a senior journalist in September of 2023, Amelia’s role has evolved to see her heading up the SEO output of the editorial team. From researching the most ‘Google-able’ key terms to producing evergreen content - it’s been a time of hard work, growth, and success for the editorial team and the Supercar Blondie website. “I like to think of myself as a ‘method journalist’. In other words: I live and breathe whatever I am writing about. When writing about fitness, I trained as a personal trainer, and as a beauty editor, I completed an ‘expert’ in scent diploma with the Fragrance Foundation. “During my tenure at Supercar Blondie, however, I did something I never thought possible: I passed my driving test at the age of 36. One day I’d love to train as a mechanic to better understand what happens under the hood, too. “My sweet spot is providing readers with a ‘takeaway’ (read: something new they didn’t know before) after reading every one of my stories. While I don’t claim to be an expert in the automotive world, I know the experts and bodies in the field to rely on to provide our readers with an informative and thought-provoking story every time they visit the site.”
