There are oxygen masks on airplanes.
Totally fresh air could be supplied to all passengers easily via spacial masks.
Dude......
You don't happen to be in the bottled O2 business, do you ?
Those tanks have only enough O2 to last 15 minutes...just enough time to get below 13000 ft, where you don’t need it. There isn’t a tank big enough for a full flight for hours. Too heavy.
Once you are on a plane, you are getting very clean air. 50% is recycled thru a HEPA filter. 50% is brought in from outside. The flow goes from the top of the cabin to the floor - vertical. And it is refreshed 3 times a minute.
AIRPORTS will be the problem. There isn’t enough room to do the social distancing thing. I base that on what I saw flying last week.
There is at most, a little over 10 minutes of oxygen for the masks on a plane. It is just to alow survival until the plane gets to a lower elevation. It would be costly to supply air for the entire trip. Air during a normal trip comes from a system that removes it from outside the plane. In fact, everything in this article will make flying very expensive.
You would be far better off breathing cabin air than wearing a mask. And airliners do not carry anything close to that amount of oxygen. It would take a big redesign and retrofit of airframes.
And all you would do is install a system MORE likely to make you sick.
You would be far better off breathing cabin air than wearing a mask. And airliners do not carry anything close to that amount of oxygen. It would take a big redesign and retrofit of airframes.
And all you would do is install a system MORE likely to make you sick.
Those are used for decompression and have very little duration. Just enough to get to 15,000 ft.