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the cockpit.” To Cragg and the NESC, there were major data points that had yet to be captured from previous PE research. “We don’t have the amount of oxygen in his mask, the amount of CO2 in his mask, the pressure you’d want to know about in the cockpit, nor the pilot’s breathing rates. Those types of things are what could help us do a full physiological assessment of what’s happening to the pilot.”
The NESC’s approach to solving this issue comes from the foundational understanding that PEs do not happen to aircraft, but rather they hap- pen to people — making the issue one that must be approached by looking at both the pilot and the aircraft as an interwoven system.
Armstrong’s F-18A/B aircraft and F-15D aircraft will serve as the perfect testbed for this study; the aircraft in NASA’s possession still use the legacy technology of a Liquid Oxygen System as opposed to newer military aircraft that utilize an Onboard Oxygen System. Given that NASA’s aircraft use a different system, data collected by NASA will serve as a baseline for comparison to the military’s newer OBOGS system.
“As a retired Air Force fighter pilot, I under- stand the military mission and the environment in which our pilots need to operate,” said Less. “It is my hope that the data we gather will increase our understanding of the physiology of flying high- performance fighters and will allow the military to resolve the problems they’ve been having with physiological events. Our military pilots need to have complete confidence in their equipment so they can focus on carrying out their vital missions.“
Over the next few months of flight testing, NASA will help to optimize human pilot perfor- mance while simultaneously minimizing the poten- tial for these unexplained PEs during flight. It is not every day that people have the chance to explore such life-changing questions. For NASA’s aviators like Less, it is just another day in the office.
NASA photograph by Carla Thomas
NASA pilot Jim Less is assisted by life support as he is fitted with a Cobham designed VigiLOX pilot oxygen monitoring system. VigiLOX is a sensing system that is attached to a pilot’s existing gear to capture real-time physiological, breathing gas and cockpit environmental data.
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