Word: gell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Martha Gell-horn-Simon & Schuster...
...practice, however, any flyer tenses his belly muscles when he is going into a tight turn, and this tends to dam the blood stream. Some authorities question whether it really gives any more protection than good muscle tone, properly used. The Navy's Captain Charles F. Gell believes that the answer to G forces is not a suit but a reclining seat. At the Johnsville (Pa.) Air Development Center, he has experimented with tilt-back models which would enable a pilot to take the stresses fore and aft instead of up and down. But this makes for difficulties...