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Dr. P.M. Van Wulfften Palthe, "Psychological and Psychiatric Methods of Selection and Assessment of Flying Personnel in The Netherlands Air Force"

1. "When the demand begins to exceed the supply, there is a tendency to modify the qualifications. All candidates coming forward are really needed and one can no longer afford to restrict oneself to the best. In practice, therefore, and from sheer necessity, the psychological work is no longer a selection procedure in a positive but rather in a negative sense, namely the elimination of the manifestly unfit. The emphasis is now laid on the discarding of candidates."

"Even if the view is accepted that a psychological authoritative body, supplemented with aviation experts, is really capable of selecting the best out of a sufficiently large group of candidates, this still does not mean, when the emphasis comes to lie not on the selection of the best but on the elimination of the unfit, that the authoritative body in question which works exclusively with psychological methods is the most suitable for the task."

Donald W. Hastings M.D. "Psychiatric of Flying Personnel"

3. "The selection of flying personnel involves the consideration of the following factors:

1. selection by physical standards.
2. Selection by standards of native intelligence and degree of education
3. Selection by aptitude tests to determine interests & skills
4. Selection by standards of emotional stability and prediction as to ability to tolerate stresses of flying and of combat flying."

4. Questions about the interconnections between neurosis and cowardice