Medical Aspects of Flight Safety; (The Unexplained Aircraft Accident)

New York: Pergamon Press, 1959. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. ix, [1], 308, [2] pages. Occasional footnotes. Fold-out. Illustrations. Tables. Charts. References. Index. Text is in English and in French, with summaries of the French articles in English and vice versa. DJ worn, torn, soiled and chipped. This was published for and on behalf of the Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. AGARDograph 30. The AGARD Aeromedical Panel devoted two symposia (Oslo-Copenhagen, 1956, and Paris, 1957) to "The medical aspects of flight safety." This AGARDograph gathers a selection of reports. The Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) was an agency of NATO that existed from 1952 to 1996. AGARD was founded as an Agency of the NATO Military Committee. It was set up in May 1952 with headquarters in Neuilly sur Seine, France. In a mission statement in the 1982 History it published, the purpose involved "bringing together the leading personalities of the NATO nations in the fields of science and technology relating to aerospace". The Advisory Group was organized by panels: Aerospace medical, avionics, electromagnetic wave propagation, flight mechanics, fluid dynamics, guidance and control, propulsion and energetics, structures and materials, and technical information. In 1958 Theodore von Kármán hired Moe Berg to accompany him to the AGARD conference in Paris. "AGARD's aim was to encourage European countries to develop weapons technology on their own instead of relying on the U.S. defense industry to do it for them." Condition: good / Fair.

Keywords: Military Medicine, Aviation Medicine, Flight Safety, Aircraft Accidents, Accident Prevention, Crash Injury, Naval Aviation, Nystagmus, Aeromedical, Naval Aviation Medicine, Spatial Disorientation, Rapid Rotation, Crash Injuries, Loss of Consciousness

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