The medical problems of flying
Subtitle: including reports nos. I-VII
By: of the Air medical investigation committee.
Series: Special report series,; no. 53
Publisher: H. M. Stationery off.
Published: 1920
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Notes: References: p. 56, p. 202.
At head of title: Privy council.  Medical research council.
Reports VIII-IX of the Air medical investigation committee were issued in 1919 as Special report series no. 37 (Gt. Brit.  National health insurance joint committee.  Medical research committee)
The sense of stability and balance in the air, no. 11 of this report, was also issued separately in 1919 as Special report series no. 28 (Gt. Brit.  National health insurance joint committee.  Medical research committee)
Table of contents: title: Contents.; title: 1. Report on the medical aspects of high flying, by J. L. Birley.; title: 2. A simple procedure for testing the effect of 'oxygen want' on flying men, by Professor G. Dreyer.; title: 3. The bag method for the investigation of air disabilities of aviators, by Lieut-Col. Martin Flack.; title: 4. A study of the reaction of pilots and observers to diminished oxygen-pressure, by the late C. D. H. Corbett and H. C. Bazett.; title: 5. A report on the value of oxygen to aviators at relatively low altitudes, by Lieut-Col. Martin Flack and Lieut-Col. C. B. Heald.; title: 6. The selection of candidates for flying, by Lieut-Col. Martin Flack and Lieut-Col. A. P. Bowdler.; title: 7. Tests for flying efficiency and flying strain, by Lieut-Col. Martin Flack.; title: 8. Temperament and service flying strain, by J. L. Birley.; title: 9. Respiratory tests for ability to stand high altitudes, by H. C. Bazett.; title: 10. Observations on the respiration of airmen, by Grace Briscoe.; title: 11. The sense of stability and balance in the air, by Henry Head.; title: 12. Mental aptitude for aviation, by W. H. R. Rivers and Squadron-leader T. E. Rippon, in collaboration with the late Lieut. E. G. Manuel.; title: 13. "Reaction time" tests carried out on flight cadets, with description of apparatus, by the late L. E. Stamm.