EFFECTS OF SPEED
AIR FORCE TESTS DEATH-DEFYING EXPERIMENTS LONDON, Dec. 26. Picked Air Force pilots will shortly indulge in death-defying experiments at Felixstowe to ascertain whether pilots are rendered unconsciqus when racing seaplanes make a sharp turn at a speed of 300 or 400 miles an hour. It is known that pilots experience a “black-out” under such circumstances, but the exact physical effect is unknown. Air Force men will deliberately turn racing (fraft at higher speeds in order to produce “'black-outs” so as to study the effect thereof. The only high speed teamster who has not yet experienced it is Flight Lieut. Stanyforth, a Gloucester Napier racing pilot, who, his comrades say, has a castiron stomach.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17144, 28 December 1929, Page 5
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116EFFECTS OF SPEED Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17144, 28 December 1929, Page 5
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