The problem with pilots how physicians, engineers, and airpower enthusiasts redefined flight
"Pilots were a major problem in aviation development. They were exposed as feeble, vulnerable, and inefficient as aircraft flew higher, faster, and farther. Pilots asphyxiated or got the bends at high altitudes; they blacked out during high-G maneuvers; they spun into the ground after encounter...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Baltimore, Maryland
Johns Hopkins University Press
2018
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The pathology of flight
- Engineering the human machine
- Flying blind
- The changing role of the human component
- Flight without flyers
- The modern pilot, redefined
- New horizons of flight
- Conclusion: the past and future of pilots