(aviation, medicine, pathology) A disorder afflicting pilots and members of aviation crews, characterized by exhaustion, fearfulness, and other symptoms of physical and emotional distress, associated with prolonged flying times and stressful flight conditions.
1940 April, Stephen Bates, "Flight Surgeon," Popular Aviation, vol. 26, no. 4, p. 90 (Google preview):A pilot who is under par physically soon becomes a prey to aeroneurosis. He will dislike to take the air and may actually fear to leave the ground.
1983, Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate (eds.), The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume Four, ISBN 9781428915893, p. 274 (Google preview):By April 1943 the flight surgeons could detect a growing number of aeroneuroses among their aircrews. The strain of constant overwater flying rested particularly heavily upon the navigators, but it was severe for all air personnel.
2006, David Gradwell and ‎David J Rainford (eds.), Ernsting's Aviation Medicine, 4th edition, ISBN 9780340813195, p. 740 (Google preview):Gotch had described aeroneurosis developing in flying training and considered that it was infectious, commenting that "one pupil who has given up flying is followed ... by 2 or 3 more in the same week."
