Anti-Freeze in Pilots' Blood Baffles Air Force

atlanticwire.com ^ | 27 July 2011 | Adam Clark Estes

[smokingfrog]

Post-Flight Tests Found Chemicals in Pilots’ Blood

[agere_contra]

Any muslims on the flight crew?

[izzatzo]

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!

[Da Coyote]

“Any muslims on the flight crew?”

It made me laugh...then it made me wonder.....

[Quick Shot]

Somehow this reminds me of commercial divers I've worked with. They are not all there. You can look in their eyes and they are not all there, there cells are not connected. I think it is a few to many tanks with something more than Oxygen in them. I'd look at these pilots tanks and how they were filled.

[Da Coyote]

“...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....

[SanFranDan]

Thunderball, where the plane’s oxygen supply was compromised.

[NeilGus]

I know AF pilots are cool but...

[Rudder]

They should check the officers’ club for a bartender-saboteur named Mohammed.

[WOBBLY BOB]

They’re all nicknamed “Iceman”.

[smokingfrog]

They don’t have oxygen tanks. The have an On-Board Oxygen Generation System (OBOGS).

[davisfh]

"...then it made me wonder....."

Islam is a religion of peace, you know. See tagline.

[bunkerhill7]

mole sabotage

[goodnesswins]

A fellow freeper recently died, (unexpectedly) and there is speculation he was poisoned with anti-freeze....hhhmmmmm

[Ole Okie]

They don’t have oxygen tanks. The have an On-Board Oxygen Generation System (OBOGS).

That's where I'd concentrate my attention.

Oxygen concentrators use ambient air with whatever toxins that contains.

[Red Badger]

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...........................

[bjc]

I am stunned that they cannot determine what is happening in what amounts to a closed system. Do all F22s have the same problem?

[RedStateRocker]

“Oxygen concentrators use ambient air with whatever toxins that contains”
that makes the most sense of anything.

[Palter]

Some of the symptoms are clear signs of hypoatreamia, I dunno if the G's and other factors creating the results in the blood test. Very interesting.

[bunkerhill7]

Put a Blue Tick Hound in the cockpit - He`ll sniff out the leak.