Word: gerathewohl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Astronautical Congress at Rome, Dr. Siegfried J. Gerathewohl of the U.S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine told about experiments with weightlessness made with a two-place, T-33 jet-trainer, which by flying the proper curve at high speed could keep its occupants weightless for 40 seconds at a time...
Hundreds of men, said Dr. Gerathewohl, made "zero gravity'' flights without alarming effects. As the airplane noses over its curve, the passenger begins to feel a "floating" sensation. A ball tossed in the hand falls more slowly. When it does not fall at all. gravity is suspended. At this point about half of the men who made the test felt pleasant, elated sensations. One of them wished he could live forever at zero gravity...
Some of the others felt such unpleasant effects as pressure on the eyeballs, sweating, headaches. Dr. Gerathewohl said of his own experience: "There's a feeling of flotation and lack of orientation when you close your eyes. You have a sense of complete relaxation...
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