Jounceling In The Derbiss
October, 1959
Jounceling in the DerbissA Half Century after Kitty Hawk, one of aviation medicine's major problems – the Transoceanic Syndrome, characterized by paralytic pernicious boredom – remains only partly solved. Neither light reading nor small talk will help on a long flight, for the very adjectives "light" and "small" show that these are petty weapons soon worn out. There is only one escape: sleep. But how to attain it in an upright Z-position which can be changed only to three inc...