Going The Extra Mile: Stories from the history of aviation medicine

Samuel Cody, the man considered to have been the first test pilot, measured the power of his aircraft by tying it to a tree. Hubertus Strughold, the German physiologist hailed as the ‘Father of Space Medicine’, was later found to have experimented on live prisoners at Dachau concentration camp. John Derry, the first British pilot to break the sound barrier, died along with his crew in the crash that killed 29 spectators at the 1952 Farnborough Air Show. The history of the development of spa...