Dimitri’s Reviews > The German Air Force I Knew 1914-1918: Memoirs of the Imperial German Air Force in the Great War > Status Update

Only those who have actual experience can realise what it is like to be boxed up in a narrow engine gondola with the engine roaring in his ears for 24h on end. In addition one must take into consideration the extreme cold & difficulty of working in the rarified atmosphere of 20.000 ft (7+ km) under conditions our bodies are not accustomed to. The effects of Oxygen shortage causes mountain sickness, lassitude etc.