FLYING SICKNESS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3596, 7 October 1920, Page 6

FLYING SICKNESS.

According to those aviators who are troubled with the complaint', flying sickness combines the worst featuresof the diving bell disease, which is caused by the injuries divers suffer from when they ascend too suddenly from a great depth. By suddenly rising to a great attitude the aviator suffers the aerial form of iTiEe disease, and in the view of a medical authority gas ■bubbles form in. the aviators' tissues, and they are, to a greater or less extent, torn apart. By descending too suddenly from a great altitude the divers'’ disease is reproduced. The ear-drums are driven in, the eyes feel crushed, vision ia,disItfurbed, and blood gushes. from the mouth. The delicate tissues surrounding the nerves ana brain are disintegrated, causing nervous troubles and insanity. It is now believed that many of the tragic and unaccountable deaths of aviators were due to this Httle-un-derktood disease. This was probably the case #ith one youthful hero who won worhWidd renown. While flying a long way front* the front he rose suddenly to a great height and fell, for no known reason.