Aviation medicine?

Aviation Medicine

Aviation Medicine

Aviation Medicine

US Army aviation medicine.

In February 1912, the Surgeon General of the United States Army prepared a special preliminary physical examination for candidates who were to receive instruction in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps. This examination and those devised over the next four years were too demanding and few candidates could pass. In response to the need to revise medical standards for aviators, Colonel Theod...

Human Factors & Aviation Medicine

Approximately eight percent of human males (and a fraction of one percent of females) in a given population of aircrew training applicants will have some degree of color insensitivity: that is, be unable to discriminate between certain shades of a color and white, or, between shades of colors, or even between certain colors. The insensitivity may range from mild to complete, and should not, in ...