[Noob1999]

Thanks!

I had no idea that these old aircraft were still in service!

[Rummyfan]

The Air Force wants to dump Global Hawk, which can stay on station for 24 hours, and is pilot-less, to keep using a fifty-year old airframe that requires highly specialized and trained pilot and can only stay on station half the time of the Global Hawk. Can someone tell me how this is more mission and cost effective?

[hattend]

So pressuring the cockpit to the level of a lower altitude eliminates a lot of stressful aspects of each flight (like breathing pure oxygen).

These pilots are in spacesuits. They breathe pure oxygen to purge their bodies of nitrogen.

Even if they pump the cockpits up in pressure (not even sure the structure could handle it) the pilots would still have to be in the suit, breathing O2, in case the pressurization fails at 70K+ feet.

Or am I just using faulty logic?