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Certain statements attributed to me are completely unjustifiable. For example: "Dr. McFarland concludes that modern planes . . . are . . . a generally unsatisfactory means of travel." Further on: "The airplane itself is a menace to health, McFarland thinks." The article is concluded: "Anyway, 300 m.p.h., he thinks, is plenty fast enough." These statements do not represent my views and I doubt that they can be substantiated or inferred from the book [Human Factors in Air Transport Design] unless statements have been taken out of context or distorted by the reviewer's own interpretation...
...ROSS A. MCFARLAND...
...TIME admits that Dr. McFarland should be the best interpreter of his own book, regrets its air-queasiness...
...that at least a fourth of all passengers are susceptible to airsickness. Most of them become more or less immune once they get used to flying, and airlines would do well to help them become immune by making it harder to get sick. An estimated one-tenth, whom Dr. McFarland classifies as "usually neurotic or emotionally predisposed to airsickness," never do. "Their nausea is severe, is unrelieved by vomiting, usually lasts throughout the flight, and continues for some time after landing...
Noise & Bumps. Besides the natural air hazards (bumpy air currents, bad weather, lack of oxygen at high altitudes), the airplane itself is a menace to health, McFarland thinks. Scientific tests have shown that the modern plane cabin is almost as noisy as a subway train. On a long flight, McFarland reports, noise can increase fatigue, inefficiency and irritability to the danger point. There is no proof, he says, that constant flying permanently deafens airmen, but it does reduce their hearing in the higher frequencies (a deaf spot known as "aviator's notch"). The plane's vibration also...