Word: stapp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 1951, Colonel Stapp had done just about all he could with the Edwards sled and track. After a tour of duty at Wright Field, he moved in 1953 to New Mexico's Holloman Air Force Base, where he found no need for "moonlight requisitions." He got a comfortable clutter of laboratory buildings, sufficient equipment and a good staff. Now, the nine officers (including their chief, Stapp) attached to Holloman's Aero-Medical Field Laboratory hold 24 advanced scientific degrees among them...
...Autos, Too. Not all the work at Holloman is concerned with making the jet age safer. Stapp and his men have developed some important safety byproducts for oldfashioned, earthbound, combustion-engine man. Last year the Air Force lost some 700 men in plane crashes and 628 in auto accidents. Faced with this startling statistic, Stapp promptly started a car-crash study program, put dummies into salvaged autos and sent them hurtling into wood and concrete walls...
...shelves should be removed; objects on them have a horrible habit of spewing into passengers' heads during crashes. Power brakes, he suggests, should be operated by hand; the eye-hand reaction is quicker than any foot movement. And safety belts, he thinks, are absolute necessities. This month Colonel Stapp will be traveling to Detroit to congratulate the Automobile Manufacturers Association for incorporating some of his suggestions in their 1956 models...
...aircraft industry has been slower to appreciate the Stapp research. Time and again he has advocated rearward facing seats in transports, argued eloquently that passengers riding backwards would stand a good chance of surviving many crashes. Although he talks with the authority of a man who has lived through such lethal decelerations, he has made surprisingly little headway among private airlines (though passengers in new Air Force transports face the rear...
...Ride with Godiva. Busy as ever at Holloman, Bachelor Stapp still manages to lead his private version of the good life. He has bought a three-bedroom home at 300 Lovers Lane in nearby Alamogordo, where he lives alone and lumps it. He refuses to own a television set ("I am not ready for intellectual suicide"). His principal indulgence is some excellent hi-fi equipment...