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TIIM 8-310
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TECHNICAL MANUAL WAR DEPARTMENT,
No. 8-310 WASHINGTON, October 21, 1940.
NOTES ON PHYSIOLOGY IN AVIATION MEDICINE
Prepared under direction of
The Surgeon General
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SECTION I. Effects of physical factors-___________ __ - 1 - 8
II. Mechanics of respiration ___________________ 9 -20
III. Chemistry of respiration_____________________ 21-50
IV. Anoxia.... - - -----------------------__ 51-61
V. Effects of changes in altitude6-----------------2-67
VI. Permanent reactions to altitude and the transition
period --------- --------------------- 68-79
VII. Fatigue -------------------------------- 80-89
VIII. Effects of muscular exercise-__------__-_ -90-95
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APPENDIX ------------------------------------------------- 90
INDEX .----------------------------------- ------- 91
SECTION I
EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL FACTORS
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The sense of flight ---------------------------------------------- 1
New muscular controls_.............___. ------------- 2
Spatial orientation; instrument flying____ - --_____-______-_______- 3
Sensitiveness to motion------------------------------------------ 4
Effect of speed and centrifugal force---------------..... ___-___-.. 5
Effect of cold--------- ---------------------------------- 6
Effect of wind ----------7------------------------ 7
Influence of light---- ----------------------------- 8
1. The sense of flight.-a. Flying requires the development of
a new special sense, the sense of flight, which means the ability to
react to the invisible movements of the atmosphere, the faculty to
feel or sense conditions of the air and movements of the craft in
flight, and to react properly with precise muscular contractions. The
sense of flight is a composite sensation. It includes the feel of the
seat, the feel of the controls, the sense of air pressure on the face
and body, the action on the semicircular canals and vestibule of the
ear, and visual, muscular, and visceral sensations. Probably the
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