HUMAN REACTION TO SPEED AND HEIGHT
— Received Thursday, 7 p.m. WASHJXGTOX, Sept. 12. The navv is constructing at Johns cille, Pennsylvania, the world 's largest liuman centrifuge to studv human reaciions to new flight conditions due to the levelopment of aircraft eapable of leigbts and speeds beyond the present Thvsiologieal limits. Speeds of 1000 miles an hour and air pressure at (50,00(1 t'eet, will be simulated. X-ray eameras tvill record the effects of acceleration )n the internal organs and the subjecl pill be observed on television sereens.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 September 1946, Page 5
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