Summary: A recent news programme caught my eye when I realised it involved our great friends at the Farnborough Aviation Sciences Trust museum. It reminded me of the group of sadistic so-called doctors who populated the Institute of Aviation Medicine and tortured generations of unsuspecting and innocent RAF aircrew in machines such as the one the article featured, a centrifuge! This aforementioned device which resembles a vast witch’s ducking stool crossed with an iron maiden, first operated in 1955 but was decommissioned as recently as 2019 and has now received Grade 2 protection.<br> <br> <br> <br> The Institute of Aviation Medicine<br> <br> <br> <br> The Farnborough Centrifuge<br> <br> <br> <br> The Cecil Hotel with it's red and white ornate frontage<br> <br> <br> <br> The august medical journal, the Lancet<br> <br> <br> <br> Early versions of oxygen masks<br> <br> <br> <br> An early mobile decompression chamber<br> <br> <br> <br> Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the RAF, FAST museum, The Library of Congress, those images within the Public Domain and the National Museum of Health & Medicine.<br> <br>
