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...occurs mainly among neurotics who have an unconscious fear of falling. Far more serious is "acute altitude sickness," caused by decrease in the pressure of the oxygen breathed at high altitudes. Altitude sickness, says Dr. Armstrong, is a tough problem. Few people ever feel its painful symptoms while aloft, even though its serious effects may begin at altitudes as low as 9,000 feet. Reason: as the amount and pressure of oxygen breathed is decreased, the senses are dulled, so that bodily changes which would normally cause pain are not felt. Above altitudes of 12,000 feet...
...high bridge, Roberts had time to glance aloft, see the sky blotted out by the crest of the wave before it broke over them, hurled men the entire length of the bridge. Small sounds in the Niagara thunder of the blow were the smashing of glass, furniture, superstructure, screams of passengers that the ship was going down, shrieks of the injured...
...open water, or which they just happened to find there. Weather favored the fliers when they located their targets: clouds low enough to afford a screen for the dive bombers to come down through, yet not so solid but that heavy, non-diving bombers could drop "stuff" from far aloft through cloud holes...
...bright, intelligent lad of five named Tanchu, had been discovered in western China (TIME, Aug. 21). Instead of taking him direct to Lhasa, the caravan went some hundreds of miles out of the way to Chungking, China's capital, where an attendant held the button-eyed god aloft before the populace. Thence representatives of the Chinese Government accompanied the caravan to Lhasa...
Today, no U. S. military or naval airman may go aloft without a parachute and the same rule is generally observed in Europe's air forces. Last year, while the world was busy at rearmament it spent generously on parachutes because a pilot is a fighting asset well worth saving even if his plane is lost. Now the world wants more chutes than ever, for war means wear, tear and crashes-high mortality for life savers...