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The Navy has described the torture chamber which it will build at Johnsville, Pa. to test the effect of the hops, drops and altitude changes of high-speed airplanes upon the human body. The Navy's gadget is a gigantic merry-go-round with a cab twelve feet in...
One "G" is the normal gravitational force to which the human body is accustomed. When an airplane makes a turn, it subjects its occupants to a centrifugal or "quasi-gravitational" force measured in additional Gs. During a "five G turn," the pilot's body weighs five times as much...
A. BRIAN MERRY Augusta, Ga.
¶TIME'S thanks to Reader Merry. For the names of TIME'S team, let him look at the masthead, p. 19.-ED.
James Norman Hall, Tahiti-dwelling author (with Charles Nordhoff) of the Bounty series, discomfited many a book critic with a wicked confession: Fern Gravel, a child poetess whose volume, Oh, Millersville!, made a merry little noise in literary circles six years ago, existed only in Hall's brain. Deadpanned...