Posted on 07/28/2011 7:49:12 AM PDT by smokingfrog
A few months ago, Air Force leaders noticed some very strange behavior from pilots in the cockpit of F-22 Raptor fighters. Some pilots sounded like they were drunk on the radio; others couldn't even remember how to use the radio during flights. Lab tests revealed not alcohol in the pilots' blood, but a host of toxic chemicals including oil fumes, anti-freeze and even propane. The Air Force grounded the entire stealthy F-22 fleet on May 3rd and launched an investigation. This week, the Air Force Times reports that they're still stumped, which is not the best news for the fantastically expensive and problem-prone F-22s.
The Air Force has definitely figured out that toxins are making their way into the cockpit, but they don't know how. The symptoms that the pilots were displaying resemble those of hypoxia, a condition due to a lack of oxygen. Captain Jeff Haney exhibited the similar symptoms just before he crashed and died in Alaska in November of 2010. Suspecting that the chemicals entered the cockpit through the jet's life support system, the Air Force is investigating the oxygen masks and pressurization systems, but they've yet to find the link.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlanticwire.com ...
Any muslims on the flight crew?
What can you say? New aircraft almost always need the bugs worked out when they become operational, but this—a crossover between life support and freeze protection systems, Jesus!
“Any muslims on the flight crew?”
It made me laugh...then it made me wonder.....
“...I’d look at these pilots tanks and how they were filled. ..”
In my day, we had LOX filled tanks for our O2. This allowed smaller, lighter tanks...saving weight in fighters is a good thing....
Thunderball, where the plane’s oxygen supply was compromised.
I know AF pilots are cool but...
They should check the officers’ club for a bartender-saboteur named Mohammed.
They’re all nicknamed “Iceman”.
They don’t have oxygen tanks. The have an On-Board Oxygen Generation System (OBOGS).
Islam is a religion of peace, you know. See tagline.
mole sabotage
A fellow freeper recently died, (unexpectedly) and there is speculation he was poisoned with anti-freeze....hhhmmmmm
That's where I'd concentrate my attention.
Oxygen concentrators use ambient air with whatever toxins that contains.
My guess is that ‘green’ technology has brought about new chemical mixtures that have adverse affects when put into systems that have other chemicals outgassing from ‘new’ materials...........................
I am stunned that they cannot determine what is happening in what amounts to a closed system. Do all F22s have the same problem?
“Oxygen concentrators use ambient air with whatever toxins that contains”
that makes the most sense of anything.
Put a Blue Tick Hound in the cockpit - He`ll sniff out the leak.
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