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The problem with pilots : how physicians, engineers, and airpower enthusiasts redefined flight / Timothy P. Schultz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schultz, Timothy Paul, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Airplanes, Military--Technological innovations.
- Airplanes, Military.
- Aeronautics, Military--United States--History--20th century.
- Aeronautics, Military.
- Aeronautics, Military--Technological innovations--United States--History--20th century.
- Aviation medicine--United States.
- Aviation medicine.
- Fighter pilots--Effect of technological innovations on--United States.
- Fighter pilots.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "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 encountering clouds or fog; and they found innumerable ways to commit fatal errors. This is the story of how physicians and engineers, spurred by airpower enthusiasts seeking to advance the military potential of aviation, sought new means to address these problems and bridge the widening gap between human and machine performance. It provides an original view of how their efforts connected the technological, the medical, and the human element and effected changes that transformed the pilot's role and redefined flight. Schultz explores the major changes in the pilot-aircraft relationship that transpired primarily between World War One and the end of World War Two and applies them to modern flight. Archival resources illuminate the pilot's evolution, and theories of technological change inform the innovations and institutional imperatives that elevated the roles of life scientists and engineers."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2480-0
- OCLC:
- 1024177136
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