Aviation medicine is perceived as one of the younger sub-specialities of occupational medicine. However, man was beginning to master flight with balloons in the late eighteenth century and the first application of sound scientific principles to the effects on man of the aviation environment was Paul Bert’s work on hypoxia in the early nineteenth century [1]. The early balloonists soon learned t...

This paper describes a method for measuring strain and stress values in a real world project through the use of sensors, data acquisition hardware, and the LabVIEW software program. The proposed method describes how real time information about mechanical properties can be gathered within a single user-friendly program. The ability to make drastic or life-saving decisions during an air mission i...

The potential for significant neck injuries exists in today's high performance fighter aircraft. The G-loads required to produce injury need not be excessive, nor is experience level necessarily protective. Eight cervical spine injury cases, due to or aggravated by +Gz in F-15 and F-16 aircrew members are reviewed. These include two compression fractures (C5/C7), three left HNP's (C5-6/C6-7), o...