FLIGHTS TO DEFY DEATH

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1929, Page 9

FLIGHTS TO DEFY DEATH

AIR FORCE EXPERIMENTS

CAREERING AT TOP SPEED EFFECTS OF “BLACK-OUT” By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 8 p.m. London, Dec. 26. Picked Air Force pilots will shortly indulge in death-defying experiments at Felixstowe to ascertain whether pilots are rendered unconscious when racing seaplanes make sharp turns at a speed of 300 to 400 miles an hour. It is known that pilots experience a “black out” under such circumstances, but the exact physical effect is unknown. The Air Force men will deliberately turn racing craft at higher speeds in order to produce “black out” and study its effect. The only high speed team member who has not yet experienced it is Flight-Lieutenant Stainforth, a Glou-cester-Napier racing pilot, who, _ his comrades say, has a cast-iron stomach.