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Breathless F-35 pilots to get oxygen boost via algorithm tweak

SkippyBing

AIUI there is a bottle of compressed oxygen in the ejector seat, and there was talk of making it available as an emergency back up. There is still the issue that people with hypoxia don't automatically recognise they have hypoxia so initiating the emergency supply is still an issue.

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