... was the Strato-Gremlin who menaced the big Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and its aircrew. Strato-Gremlins were rarely encountered below 35,000 feet and were thought to be responsible for all aero medical and mechanical problems airmen encountered in the stratosphere. Case in point. Every time the USAAF's flying research laboratory, Boeing B-17E #13 (ser. no. 41-2407)-a. ...
Tópico(s): Spaceflight effects on biology
2022 - Wiley | The FASEB Journal
... reviews how checklists saved the life of the Boeing Corporation, its B-17 Flying Fortress, and the B-17's future flight crews. ...
Tópico(s): Health and Conflict Studies
2011 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Anesthesiology
IT has recently been revealed that twenty Boeing “Flying Fortresses” (B–17.C.type), all of which have been flown across the Atlantic, are now in service with the Royal Air Force. The official R.A.F. title for these will be “Fortress 1”. Further supplies of an improved design (B–17.E.) are under construction in the United States. These bombers, the largest at present ...
Tópico(s): Military Defense Systems Analysis
1941 - Nature Portfolio | Nature
... Med Lab, Dayton, OH) and an aircrew from Boeing’s Flight Test Unit flew to 42,900 ft in a B‐17E Flying Fortress using the PB oxygen mask prototype. The 3‐ ...
Tópico(s): Radiation Dose and Imaging
2014 - Wiley | The FASEB Journal
Paulin Ruhato Banguti, Jean Paul Mvukiyehe, Marcel E. Durieux,
... these events. The accident with the B-17 Flying Fortress led to the realization that the aircraft was, as has been said, “too much airplane for one man ...
Tópico(s): Patient Safety and Medication Errors
2018 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Anesthesia & Analgesia
... 970] Success came with the B-17, the Flying Fortress, the first effective all-metal, four-engine monoplane ...
Tópico(s): Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
2020 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Technology and Culture