Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Eli Beeding" in English language version.
The highest g value voluntarily endured is 82.6 g for 0.04 sec by Eli L. Beeding, Jr. on a water-braked rocket sled at Holloman Air Force Base. NM on 16 May 1958. He was subsequently hospitalized for three days.
The severest and most persistent signs of shock were observed in a backward-facing deceleration during which Captain Eli Breeding was exposed to 2,139 G per second to a peak of 40.4 G for a duration of .040 second. This corresponds to 12-14 cycles per second as shown in Table 1. The dynamic response to the impact was a peak measured on the sternum of 82.6 G, at 3,826 G per second-- approximately double the rate-of-onset and magnitude of the applied impact, which corresponds to about 12 cycles per second of resonant response. The impact force was apparently amplified with a dynamic load factor of 2.0 by the elastic response of the rib cage.
