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Air sickness   /ɛr sˈɪknəs/   Listen
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Air sickness  n.  A vomiting or nauseous feeling similar to seasickness experienced by passengers in aircraft; it is caused by motion and distinguished from the effects of low air pressure, as it may also occur in the pressurized cabins of large aircraft.





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"Air sickness" Quotes from Famous Books



... interested; and some of his divinations come very near to the truth. He pictures Salisbury Plain, Newmarket Heath, and all downs, arising into dockyards for aerial vessels; and he professes himself willing to go to Paris by air, 'if there is no air sickness'. The best defence of the new invention was spoken by Benjamin Franklin, who when he was asked in Paris, 'What is the use of balloons?' replied by another question—'What is the ...
— The War in the Air; Vol. 1 - The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force • Walter Raleigh


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