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| Human & Animal Experiments - from the F.A.S.T. Archive Collection (IAM) | ||||
| From the Wright Brothers to the supersonic age, the advances in aircraft design have been well documented. But the more | ||||
| sophisticated the aircraft become, they are still limited by one thing, the Human Factor. While the aircraft have changed | ||||
| almost beyond recognition, the men and women who fly them have not. Trying to match the often delicate tolerances of | ||||
| the human mind and body to the power and capability of these great inventions led to a new science known as aviation | ||||
| medicine, which deals with the effects of flight on the human body. This footage features the extraordinary work of the | ||||
| experts from the former RAF Institute of Aviaiton Medicine in Farnborough and their colleagues from the USA. Their often | ||||
| brave and daring work was carried out long before the introduction of the health & safety restrictions we know today, and | ||||
| was captured on film for scientific analysis. | ||||
| Item | Tape Ref | Start T/C | End T/C | Shot Description |
| 1 | 436 | 00:05:56 | 00:06:09 | Vestibular research, men spinning. Investigating methods for pilots to avoid dizziness when plane goes into a spin. Very amusing. |
| 2 | 436 | 00:05:13 | 00:05:36 | Vestibular research, man spinning in chair. Investigation as above. |
| 3 | 430 | 00:04:00 | 00:05:07 | `Heath Robinson` style rotating rig used to de-sensitise pilots who suffered from motion sickness. |
| 4 | 534 | 00:02:35 | 00:05:09 | Biodynamic research - testing effectiveness of body restraints during descleration & impact. |
| 5 | 534 | 00:05:20 | 00:08:15 | Biodynamic research - crash dummies & human trials, testing body restraints, rapid descleration. Slo-motion |
| 6 | 534 | 00:08:28 | 00:09:00 | Biodynamic research - rocket sledge rapid desceleration & impact trials, exterior (more examples available) |
| 7 | 534 | 00:12:12 | 00:13:20 | Escape from open cockpit trials in front of wind machine to simulate high speed flight (more available) |
| 8 | 534 | 00:18:36 | 00:19:35 | Underwater drag trials in Navy `donut` tank, simulating pilot in cockpit of aircraft that has ditched into sea (more available) |
| 9 | 534 | 00:27:33 | 00:27:40 | Drop trials testing effectiveness of parachute harness. |
| 10 | 534 | 00:28:03 | 00:29:08 | Parachute drag trials on the ground |
| 11 | 534 | 00:29:12 | 00:29:33 | Parachute drag trials in the water using water tank test facility |
| 12 | 542 | 00:02:30 | 00:03:29 | Extreme close-up of human eye movements (more footage available) |
| 13 | 542 | 00:04:20 | 00:05:20 | Vibration trials, effect on human body of significant & sustained vibration (in aircraft). Quite amusing. (more available) |
| 14 | 66 | 00:07:57 | 00:08:45 | Harness testing under simulated crash conditions with dummy then live subject, slo-mo, commentary. |
| 15 | 82 | 00:06:08 | 00:06:47 | Underwater escape trials, live subject tries to exit cockpit of crashed aircraft (simulation in water tank, more footage available) |
| 17 | 82 | 00:06:48 | 00:07:51 | Trials with use of undersea research station. Commentary explains more. |
| 18 | 82 | 00:07:54 | 00:08:29 | Testing self-righting properties of life jacket fitted to anaethestised unconscious live subject, commentary (more available) |
| 19 | 82 | 00:09:21 | 00:09:48 | Ergonomics. In-cockpit studies of pilot hand & eye movements, commentary |
| 20 | 408 | 00:02:20 | 00:02:54 | `g` force trials testing pilot for blackout when subjected to varying degrees of `g`. Amusing when snot falls out of his nose! (more available) |
| 21 | 408 | 00:04:40 | 00:05:02 | Testing self-righting properties of life jacket fitted to anaethestised unconscious live subject, commentary (more available) |
| 22 | 408 | 00:12:02 | 00:12:50 | Trials on vertical ejection seat rig (more available) |
| 23 | 408 | 00:13:04 | 00:14:02 | 1st live human ejection while aircraft still on runway 19** Captions give further info. |
| 24 | 409 | 00:02:41 | 00:03:27 | Trials in the human centrifuge, effects of `g` force when trying to escape from aircraft (more available) |
| 25 | 439 | 00:02:09 | 00:03:15 | Trials in the human centrifuge, dramatic footage showing difficulty trying to move when subjected to `g` force |
| 26 | 439 | 00:03:16 | 00:05:12 | Escape trials, human subjected to increasing wind speeds. Use of live subject & crash dummies, commentary |
| 27 | 449 | 00:09:32 | 00:11:27 | Testing early theories / methods of artifical respiration using live anaethestised & unconscious subject |
| 28 | 453 | 00:03:29 | 00:04:00 | Testing effects on human body (head/neck) of rapid desceleration, slo-mo. |
| 29 | 478 | 00:06:20 | 00:07:20 | Demonstrating affects of anoxia, subject`s oxygen supply cut-off, body reacts with jerky movements then recovers when O2 restored. (more available) |
| 30 | 508 | 10:02:22 | 10:03:47 | Lab mice subjected to zero gravity inside rotating chamber |
| 31 | 570 | 10:02:24 | 10:03:04 | Baboon in sealed chamber subjected to rapid decompression, fights for breath |
| 32 | 443 | 10:01:50 | 10:04:56 | Cat strapped into test rig, subjected to high speed impact to see effect on body and internal organs. Commentary |