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Flight Medicine: Von Diringshofen, Heinz (Jan. 22, 1900—May 5, 1967). As a pioneer of flight medicine, in 1933 Von Diringshofen established the Institute of Flight Medicine, in Berlin, and several years later, the Luftwaffe's medical test center in Juterbog. One of the first to study the effects of weightlessness on humans, in 1934 he built the first centrifuge for testing the effects of acceleration on the human body.
Haber emigrated to the United States in 1946 and became a research scientist at the U. S. Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. In 1948 he proposed the use of the parabolic flight maneuver of an aircraft to simulate weightlessness. He joined the University of California in 1952, and in 1953 designed a space simulation chamber. Haber was chief scientific consultant to the Walt Disney Studios from 1953 to 1958 for a series of animated cartoon films on space flight produced for television. He then moved to Austria. During the 1960's he wrote and produced more than 150 science programs for German television and wrote a number of successful books on space flight.
The earliest airship flight took place in Paris in 1852. Henn Griffard's steam-powered coal-gas airship made it as far as Trappes.
The largest-ever airship, the 219 tonne Graf Zeppelin II (LZ130), made her maiden flight in 1938. She was dismantled in 1940.
The R101 was the largest British-built airship. It crashed in 1930 in France killing all but 6 of 54 on board. Its maiden flight took place the year before.
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