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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...
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2018.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.