The Cambridge Cockpit and the Paradoxes of Fatigue, 1940–1977

The story of a unique and controversial wartime study of pilot fatigue.   During World War II, members of the Cambridge Psychology Laboratory were commissioned to study pilot fatigue. They set up a Spitfire cockpit in the laboratory, turned it into a piece of laboratory apparatus, and carried out a series of important experiments that appeared to dramatically confirm the dangers of fatigue. Historians of psychology are aware of this episode, but the experiments, the events surrounding them,