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Rh lack of proper ventilation in cabin planes. Many are not adequately ventilated for with the opening of windows, the heat and sometimes fumes from the motors are blown in. Adequate ventilation is one of the amenities which the planes of the future will have to possess.

Nervousness over the first ride is probably the greatest cause of air sickness. After the initial journey many passengers never have another sign of it. Of course, some people seem almost deter­mined to be ill. I have heard them say to airline attendants before they get in,

“Well, I’m going to be a very bad passenger to­-day.”

“Why do you think so?” asks the transport employee.

“I know I shall be sick.” And by concentrating thus on the idea, some do manage very nicely!

However, despite these folk, fewer than five percent of regular airline passengers succumb. The proportion is certainly several times as great on ocean going vessels on normal days, and many times greater on rough ones.

An interesting result is being noticed as the speed of commercial passenger airplanes increases. On the fast planes almost no airsickness is encountered. The bumps are felt as hard little jolts in­stead of a slow rocking motion. And the feeling one has is like that in a canoe which rocks lazily on wavelets compared with a very fast motor boat. In a motor boat the waves feel like little bricks