Your body in flight : an illustrated "book of knowledge" for the flyer / prepared by the Aero Medical Laboratory, Engineering Division.

United States. Army Air Forces

Date:: 1943

Credit: Your body in flight : an illustrated "book of knowledge" for the flyer / prepared by the Aero Medical Laboratory, Engineering Division. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$T. O. No. 00-25-13 EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL In theaters of combat operations liquor is likely to be so hard to get that it will constitute no problem in flying. There is no question that alcohol has harmful effects on men under the strains of flying. Far from being “‘the best little overcoat in the world,” a couple of drinks actually lower your resistance to cold at high altitudes, thus counteracting the value of specially designed flying suits. This is the result of its interference with the body’s absorption of oxygen from the blood (see page 16) and an increase in the pulse and breathing rates. Such a speed-up will raise your skin temperature and cause abnormal losses of heat. Alcohol, as you doubtless know, affects the vision, dulls the senses, and makes it hard to think straight. Its effects, as mentioned before, are closely parallel to oxygen want in this respect. A man is his own best judge of when to take a drink. If he has any sense he will not endanger a flying mission by preparing for it at the bar. When a flyer can drink is simply a matter of common sense, IT WAS -WARM:WHENS] DRANK: T: DOWN - BUT NOW BRRRRR: f\8 A = A FLYER WITH LOWER RESISTANCES RESTRICTED$