Testing prospective air-pilots

Title (Dublin Core): Testing prospective air-pilots
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Airplanes and Zeppelins; en Other
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): Five Miles High in a Tank; Caption 1: This is the tank that is used at the Aerotechnical Institute of Saint-Cyr, France, to test prospective air-pilots. On the next page the interior of the tank is shown. In the background is a pump by means of which some of the air is removed within the tank so as to produce conditions similar to those at high altitudes; Caption 2: The man who want to become an aviator takes his seat within the tank. Air is pumped out to any desired degree. Thus the man is artificially elevated to ten, twenty, or thirty thousand feet. The man in the picture wears an oxygen mask, so that he's quite comfortable, even though he may be in an atmosphere equivalent to that of five miles altitude. Various instruments record hi condition
Contributor (Dublin Core): Walter Bannard (author)
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): Interwar period
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1920-12
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 97, n. 6, 1920
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 21-23
Rights (Dublin Core): Public Domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
Archived by (Dublin Core): Filippo Valle; Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)