| Giraffe legs also have a thick sheath of skin, like an astronaut's G-suit, to prevent the high blood pressure from forcing blood to leak through capillaries. |
| He marches to the aircraft, salutes smartly to his crew chief, gets into his G-suit, climbs into the cockpit, shakes hands with his crew chief and gets ready to launch. |
| Climbing into the jet became almost impossible because the dry suit was even tighter with the added resistance of the G-suit and harness. |
