Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Trampoline
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Use in flight and astronaut training=== During [[World War II]], the United States Navy Flight School developed the use of the trampoline in its training of pilots and navigators, giving them concentrated practice in spatial orientation that had not been possible before.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121006232916/http://www.wvtc.co.uk/history4.htm |url = http://www.wvtc.co.uk/history4.htm |publisher = WestView Trampoline Community |work = Trampoline History |title = Trampoline Training During World War II|archive-date = 6 October 2012}}</ref> After the war, the development of the [[space flight]] programme again brought the trampoline into use to help train both American and Soviet [[astronaut]]s, giving them experience of variable body positions in flight.
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)