Flight research began at the University of Maryland, where the focus was on psychophysiological "tension" as a determinant of performance in flight training (Roscoe, 1997). This experiment involved the first airborne polygraph and was the first in which pilot performance was measured and correlated with physiological responses in flight (Roscoe, 1997). A year later, a man named John Flanagan was recruited to set up an aviation psychology program for the U.S. Army. This organization was named the Applied Psychology Panel of the National Defense Research Committee, and it was expanded a considerable amount with America’s entry into the war. Its work extended into the U.S. Army Air Forces Aviation Psychology Program with one of the first projects studying Army anti-aircraft artillery at Tufts College. This study later led to the development of a gun-director tracking simulator (Roscoe,
Flight research began at the University of Maryland, where the focus was on psychophysiological "tension" as a determinant of performance in flight training (Roscoe, 1997). This experiment involved the first airborne polygraph and was the first in which pilot performance was measured and correlated with physiological responses in flight (Roscoe, 1997). A year later, a man named John Flanagan was recruited to set up an aviation psychology program for the U.S. Army. This organization was named the Applied Psychology Panel of the National Defense Research Committee, and it was expanded a considerable amount with America’s entry into the war. Its work extended into the U.S. Army Air Forces Aviation Psychology Program with one of the first projects studying Army anti-aircraft artillery at Tufts College. This study later led to the development of a gun-director tracking simulator (Roscoe,