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Early in the history of powered flight, the importance to the pilot of the sense of equilibrium was recognized. As this sensory modality is subserved principally by the receptors of the vestibular apparatus, it became the fashion to perform rotatory tests on potential aviators, and if the duration of their nystagmic response fell within certain limits they were accepted for flying training. However, towards the end of World War I, it became apparent that when pilots were deprived of visual orientational cues for more than about half a minute, they were unable to maintain their equilibrium in the air. As Head (1920) and others were quick to recognize, in the flight environment false or inadequate signals from the vestibular end-organs were more likely to give rise to illusory than veridical perceptions of aircraft attitude and motion ’ they were an important cause of spatial disorientation and the loss of control which this might engender.
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Benson, A. (1970). Interactions Between Semicircular Canals and Gravireceptors. In: E., D. (eds) Recent Advances in Aerospace Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3317-6_31
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