THE PERFECT AIRMAN
The physiological make-up of the perfect airman (according to the "Lancet^) •■■demands, that he must have a visual acuity of 6/6, he must be able to exercise single vision binocularly, a; very near range, and to maintain binocular vision under increasing disability. • His visual field must be wide and his colour sense accurate. His Eustachian-tubes must be free and efficient to regulate and equalise the continual changes of atmospheric pressure. His respiratory efficiency must behigh, and.h.is chest, expansion good, and his; cardiovasculaT system equal to the maintenance of.au adequate circulation under adverse conditions of strain arid low oxygen pressure. In other words, ho must possess the physical and physiological attributes of any good pilot as well as a nouro-muscular co-ordination above the normal, but in addition he must have special ability of a high, order.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 6
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138THE PERFECT AIRMAN Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 131, 29 November 1929, Page 6
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