02584cam a22002891 4500 sg 20000166 DLC 20260227112738.0 820221s1920 xx a 000 0 eng sg 20000166 (OCoLC)14793679 DLC DNLM DLC premarc TL555 .M4 W1 ME449 no.53 Medical Research Council (Great Britain) The medical problems of flying, including reports nos. I-VII of the Air medical investigation committee. London, H. M. Stationery off., 1920. 272 p. ill. Special report series, no. 53 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) References: p. 56, p. 202. Contents.--1. Report on the medical aspects of high flying, by J. L. Birley.--2. A simple procedure for testing the effect of 'oxygen want' on flying men, by Professor G. Dreyer.--3. The bag method for the investigation of air disabilities of aviators, by Lieut-Col. Martin Flack.--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.--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.--6. The selection of candidates for flying, by Lieut-Col. Martin Flack and Lieut-Col. A. P. Bowdler.--7. Tests for flying efficiency and flying strain, by Lieut-Col. Martin Flack.--8. Temperament and service flying strain, by J. L. Birley.--9. Respiratory tests for ability to stand high altitudes, by H. C. Bazett.--10. Observations on the respiration of airmen, by Grace Briscoe.--11. The sense of stability and balance in the air, by Henry Head.--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.--13. "Reaction time" tests carried out on flight cadets, with description of apparatus, by the late L. E. Stamm. Medical Research Council (Great Britain). Special report series ; no. 53. 90182 90182