by Nigel Blackwell | Planes
Colonel John Stapp died in 1999 at the age of 89. An amazingly old age given what he put his body through in those 89 years. John Stapp joined the USAF and studied the biophysical effects of flight. Not just the cruising back and forth stuff, the violent...
by Nigel Blackwell | Planes
My last post concerned the spirit of competition pushing people to challenge the limits. Many of aviations limits are now so high and so fast that challenging them is beyond any single person and corporate mergers have reduced the number of competitors to a handful.I...