Talk:David Purley

message: Purley survived a deceleration rate 173 to 0 km/h in 660 mm in a crash during pre-qualifying for the 1977 British Grand Prix at Silverstone. This is equal to 179.8 g. He suffered 29 fractures, 3 dislocations and 6 heart-stoppages. (Guinness World Records.)
Do we have a reference for this?
:Erm, reread what you posted.203.218.86.162 02:35, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The only non-Wiki reference I've found on this is at http://www.asag.sk/bio/purley.htm, wherein it's claimed "Purley was subjected to the highest G-forces ever survived by a human being - 179.8G - when the car went from 108mph to zero in just over half a meter."  While not conclusive or something that's thus far been corroborated, it clearly says "survived".  Further, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster is known to be an instance where humans experienced (and died from) a higher g impact: "The crew cabin impacted the ocean surface at roughly 207 miles per hour (333 km/hour), causing deceleration of over 200 g, far beyond the structural limits of the crew compartment or crew survivability levels." (http://history.nasa.gov/kerwin.html).  As such, I'm changing this entry.  --Thorprime 17:17, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
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message: The Guinness Book of Records figure is inaccurate. Deceleration from 173 kph to 0 kph in 660 mm is equivalent to (48 m/s)^2/(2 x 0.66) m/s^2 = 1746 m/s^2 = (1746/9.81) g = 178 g. Robma 12:37, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Calculation of deceleration rate

message: There is a request for a citation re the fact the Purley name was previously Puxley (or perhaps Pucksley).
I haven't done any research on this family but it wouldn't be hard to do.
I was David's room-mate at school and we were good friends.  He told me this information, as well as where his mother was born.
Since this came from the horse's mouth as it were, it should be on good authority.
Athbaz (talk) 23:50, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough, but I've never seen it written down anywhere (and I know more about Purley than most people do), and Wikipedia is all about sourcing.  As I'm the one who added the citation request, I explain it as thus - had I completely disbelieved the 'Puxley' claim, I would have deleted it.  All I did was ask for a reliable verification. Lec CRP1 (talk) 01:19, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Puxley 

message: An English, Welsh or Scottish sportsman is normally described as "British" when competing in an international competition and representing the United Kingdom. --Soundofmusicals (talk) 08:07, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "English" or "British"? 

message: This sentence sounds like today there is a higher record. However, neither this text, nor its reference ("Purley was subjected to the highest G-forces ever survived by a human being") nor the article g-force ("Brief human exposure survived in crash[17][23] > 100 g", with ref. 23 being a link to this article and ref. 17 not being accessible) provide such a record. --YMS (talk) 07:55, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: To answer my own question: Kenny Bräck claims to have survived a 214 g crash. --YMS (talk) 12:35, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "For many years, this was thought to be the highest g-force ever survived by a human being" 

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