The Problem with Pilots : How Physicians, Engineers, and Airpower Enthusiasts Redefined Flight /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schultz, Timothy Paul, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Aviation medicine.
Airplanes, Military > Technological innovations.
Aeronautics, Military > Technological innovations.
Aeronautics, Military.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
Pilotes de chasse > Effets des innovations sur > États-Unis.
Medecine aeronautique > États-Unis.
Aeronautique militaire > Innovations > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Aeronautique militaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Avions militaires > Innovations.
Fighter pilots > Effect of technological innovations on > United States.
Aviation medicine > United States.
Aeronautics, Military > Technological innovations > United States > History > 20th century.
Aeronautics, Military > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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