Aviation medicine in the United Kingdom: from the end of World War I to the end of World War II, 1919-1945
Gibson, T.Michael.; Harrison, M.H.
Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine 76(7): 689-691
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0095-6562 PMID: 16018355 Document Number: 585226
This is the second of three brief papers that summarize the history of Aviation Medicine in the Royal Air Force. British aviation medicine research was rescued from the doldrums of retrenchment after the end of the First World War by the need to support attempts on world records for height and speed. Despite this, the outbreak of the Second World War still found the British inadequately prepared. This part of the account of British aviation medicine research charts its transition from an organization with three full-time workers into a thriving research institute.