Fatigue testing seems to be almost as old as flying..
MEDICAL NOTES 1919
THE WEAR AND TEAR OF FLYING
By Captain T. S. RIPPON-, R.A.F. Medical Service
medical notes | mental fatigue | candidate | 1919 | 0108 | Flight Archive
ONE of the problems the commercial aircraft firms will have to face when passenger work becomes common will be how their pilots are lasting. It is obvious that a pilot who has to fly regularly in all sorts of weather will require a rest periodically. How is one to discover this ? Fortunately one of the
great discoveries of the War from a medical standpoint was made by a specialist at the R.A.F. Medical Research Depart-ment—Lieut.-Col. Flack—who before the War was associated with Professor Leonard Hill, the well-known physiologist and expert on oxygen. Lieut.-Col. Flack, who is a physiologist, discovered by a series of examinations of successful pilots and of pilots sent back from France for a rest that one of the indications of
" stress " was fatigue of the various bodily systems (respiratory, circulatory, and nervous), and he invented a simple and ingenious method of testing this fatigue.
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