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A MODERN aircraft will climb in a few minutes to heights at which the air is so thin that it will no longer support life. It can turn and manœuvre so fast that the pilot may easily be rendered unconscious from the mechanical forces which it can impose on his body, and in an aircraft which is moving rapidly in three planes of space the pilot can be subjected to stresses beyond the limits which the human body can stand.
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MATTHEWS, B. Human Limits in Flight*. Nature 153, 698–702 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153698a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153698a0