Patterns of physical conditioning in Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 pilots and the implications for +Gz tolerance

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 739-744

  Newman, David G ^a,b   White, Saxon W ^b   Callister, Robin ^b  

^a Royal Australian Air Force   (Australia)

^b 5 Lundie Crescent ^*

Author keywords

+Gz; Acceleration; Exercise; Pilots; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; AEROBIC METABOLISM; AIRPLANE PILOT; ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PHYSICAL CAPACITY;

ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS INDEX; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; HYPERGRAVITY; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032765771     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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