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Insects in Aircraft

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DR. WHITFIELD'S recent communication on this problem1 rightly emphasizes its importance. But it might be gathered from his letter that it is a new problem—one which has hitherto received little attention or one for which no adequate preventive measures have been devised.

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  1. NATURE, 144, 158 (1939).

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  2. Mackie and Crabtree, Lancet, 447 (August 20, 1938).

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MACKIE, F. Insects in Aircraft. Nature 144, 250–251 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144250c0

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