Editing Crash test dummy (section)

=== Volunteer testing ===
[[File:Rocket sled track.jpg|thumb|[[John Stapp|Colonel Stapp]] riding a rocket sled at [[Edwards Air Force Base]]]]
Some researchers took it upon themselves to serve as crash test dummies. In 1954, [[United States Air Force|USAF]] Colonel [[John Stapp|John Paul Stapp]] was propelled to over 1000&nbsp;km/h on a [[rocket sled]] and stopped in 1.4 seconds.<ref>[http://www.highbeam.com/library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:60302597&ctrlInfo=Round19%3AMode19a%3ADocG%3AResult&ao= 'Fastest Man on Earth,' Col. John Paul Stapp, Dies at 89]{{Dead link|date=June 2016}} (March 1, 2000). Retrieved April 18, 2006.</ref> [[Lawrence Patrick]], then a professor at Wayne State University, endured some 400 rides on a rocket sled in order to test the effects of rapid deceleration on the human body. He and his students allowed themselves to be hit in the chest with heavy metal [[pendulum]]s, impacted in the face by pneumatically driven rotary hammers, and sprayed with shattered glass to simulate window implosion.<ref>Roach, Mary (November 19, 1999). [http://www.salon.com/health/col/roac/1999/11/19/crash_test/index.html I was a human crash-test dummy] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060328025602/http://www.salon.com/health/col/roac/1999/11/19/crash_test/index.html |date=March 28, 2006}}. Salon.com. Retrieved November 29, 2007.</ref> While admitting that it made him "a little sore", Patrick has said that the research he and his students conducted was seminal in developing [[mathematical model]]s against which further research could be compared. While data from live testing was valuable, human subjects could not withstand tests that exceeded a certain degree of physical injury. To gather information about the causes and prevention of injuries and fatalities would require a different kind of test subject.