RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine

BAe Hawk of the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, March 1994

The Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine was a Royal Air Force aviation medicine research unit active between 1945 and 1994.

Early days

The RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine (IAM) was opened on 30 April 1945 by the Princess Royal. It was located on land to the south side of the Farnborough Airfield in Hampshire, and was successor to the wartime RAF Physiological Laboratory. Initially having separate sections for acceleration, altitude, biochemistry, biophysics, personal equipment and teaching, its mandate was to conduct both pure and applied research in support of flying personnel. Initially run by Dr Bryan Matthews, Group Captain Bill Stewart was appointed head in 1946. A former pupil of the Hamilton Academy school, Stewart was to be promoted to Air Vice-Marshal, and awarded CB and CBE. The Stewart Lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society was established in his memory in 1969.[1][2][3]

The IAM obtained a decompression chamber (moved from the Physiological Laboratory) in 1945, and this was supplemented by a climatic chamber in 1952, and human centrifuge in 1955 (the latter facility is still in operation and was designated a Grade 2 Listed Building in August 2007).

Additionally, the Institute was responsible for a number of mobile decompression chambers and the training of operators for chambers deployed at certain RAF operational stations with the object of familiarising flying personnel with the effects of anoxia at operational altitudes.

Heyday

The IAM became a world leading centre for aviation medicine research in the 1960s and 1970s, gaining additional facilities, and continuing an active flight research programme that commenced in World War II. Research into protection against the effects of high altitude, high G force, heat and cold stress, noise and vibration, sleep and wakefulness, spatial disorientation, vision, aviation psychology and human error, and aircraft accident investigation dominated activities at the IAM. Much work was done to develop and improve aircrew life support equipment.

Latter history

The IAM ceased to exist in 1994, when many research staff and facilities were transferred to the DERA Centre for Human Sciences. In the RAF, the spiritual successor to the IAM is the RAF Centre of Aviation Medicine, which opened in 1998 at RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire, and conducts training and operational support for RAF aircrew.

Commanding Officers

References

  1. ^ GIBSON, T. M.; HARRISON, M. H. Into Thin Air : A History of Aviation Medicine in the RAF. Robert Hale. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN 070901290X)
  2. ^ Glasgow Herald 4 May 1967, article 'Air Vice-Marshal dies at 53'
  3. ^ "RAeS Conference and Events Department - Named Lectures". Archived from the original on 16 January 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011. Royal Aeronautical Society, named lectures - Stewart Lecture. Retrieved 2011-01-18
  4. ^ "Obituary: Air Vice Marshal H L Roxburgh". British Medical Journal. 298: 1028. 15 April 1989. doi:10.1136/bmj.298.6679.1027.

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