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American actor Patrick Swayze was involved in an incident in which a Cessna 414 he flew experienced a sudden decompression at 12,900 feet over Arizona.
Southwest Airlines Flight 812, a Boeing 737-300 which suffered structural failure of the fuselage in flight on 1 April 2011, leading to explosive decompression.
The first recorded experimental work related to decompression was conducted by Robert Boyle, who subjected experimental animals to reduced ambient pressure by use of a primitive vacuum pump.
They also performed at the annual Burning Man Decompression Festival, and played the opening slot at the final show of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.
Time-compressed speech refers to voice compression for immediate playback, without any decompression (so that the final speech sounds faster to the listener).
As men were working under pressures of up to 4 times normal air pressure, a decompression period of almost 2 hours was needed at the end of each shift to avoid the bends.
It was developed by Capt. Edward D. Thalmann, M.D., USN, who did research into decompression theory at the Naval Medical Research Institute, Navy Experimental Diving Unit, the State University of New York at Buffalo and Duke University.
In 2004, Joseph Mangan, a former employee of TTTech, created controversy surrounding TTTech's products on the Airbus A380 by asserting that there was danger that microprocessors in the plane could result in sudden decompression.
During the war years Stewart was to conduct original research into the physiological effects of acceleration and deceleration, extreme heat and cold and decompression, and was engaged in the design of the ejector seat, G suits and oxygen systems.