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Kosh · 7 May 2006, 04:40 PM

I reread the article (published in 1934), it is based on an article in Popular Aviation. According to the article:
-Boelcke had acute asthma
-Guynemer was "ruined by tuberculosis"
-Zeumer had a lung disease
-Neuenhofen passed the sight test by learning the table by heart

Further quotes from Elliot White Spring´s "Above the Bright Blue Sky" on th tests of already established aces: "At Issoudun it was noted that the best pilots fainted while being rotated in the "torture chair" and one of them jumped out of window when a pistol was fired behind him during the test. Here it was fopund out that one was practically blind due to nearsightedness. Yet this discovery was made after the fellow had shot down 7 German planes and had been a trusted patrol leader on long recce patrols....Carlinin´s leg was of wood and Guynemer was crippled. The best results were achieved by a guy who wrecked every plane he flew and who later died of a heart failure."

7 May 2006, 04:40 PM	#5 (permalink)
Kosh Two-seater Pilot Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 222	I reread the article (published in 1934), it is based on an article in Popular Aviation. According to the article: -Boelcke had acute asthma -Guynemer was "ruined by tuberculosis" -Zeumer had a lung disease -Neuenhofen passed the sight test by learning the table by heart Further quotes from Elliot White Spring´s "Above the Bright Blue Sky" on th tests of already established aces: "At Issoudun it was noted that the best pilots fainted while being rotated in the "torture chair" and one of them jumped out of window when a pistol was fired behind him during the test. Here it was fopund out that one was practically blind due to nearsightedness. Yet this discovery was made after the fellow had shot down 7 German planes and had been a trusted patrol leader on long recce patrols....Carlinin´s leg was of wood and Guynemer was crippled. The best results were achieved by a guy who wrecked every plane he flew and who later died of a heart failure." Last edited by Kosh; 7 May 2006 at 04:46 PM.