Word: airsicker
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Major Richard Ira Bong, who shot down 27 Jap planes in the Southwest Pacific, passed through Salt Lake City on a commercial airliner, complained that he could not sleep. Reason: he was airsick...
...brought the Clipper in on its straight course and landed safely. But this was not the roughest part of the trip. The crew of the Clipper had the worst time on its last hop. Coming up from South America the weather was so bad that most of them were airsick for the first time in their lives...
Crowded in the back seat in a nest of cameras, radio and machine guns, cramped by bulky flying clothes, thumb-fingered by heavy gloves, roosting over his camera as he takes pictures of enemy territory, the observer is jolted by rough air, well knows what it is to be airsick, what it is to be bounced about by peppery pilots (who seldom worry about the guy behind). He has the daylights scared out of him half the time...
...business of looking at a point on the ground, reporting it back in terms of map coordinates for ground commanders. When his plane is jumped by enemy fighters, he must be handy with a machine gun if he and his pilot are to get back with their reports. And airsick or well, he must crook a crisp and unhurried finger on the key of his code radio...
Passengers with hangovers became clear headed when they began breathing a mix ture of 20% oxygen, 80% nitrogen. Others became violently airsick when they took off their masks, quickly recovered when they put them on again. All showed normal pulse and respiration rates, were able to eat comfortably without taking off the masks...