F-22 Oxygen problems: solution found...or is it ??

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Re: F-22 Oxygen problems: solution found...or is it ????????

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http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... es-374893/
IN FOCUS: F-22 pilots and engineers not convinced USAF has found root cause of Raptor's oxygen woes

A number of pilots and engineers are not convinced that the US Air Force has found the root cause of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor's oxygen woes despite the service officially naming the Combat Edge upper pressure garment and its associated systems as the culprits.

"There's one thing I know for certain: The Combat Edge isn't the culprit," one F-22 pilot says. "But they're trying to show positive momentum."

On 24 July, USAF chief of staff Gen Norton Schwartz told reporters that the Combat Edge upper-pressure garment and its associated breathing regulator/anti-g (BRAG) valve, hoses and connectors are to blame for the a series of "hypoxia-like" incidents have plagued the service's F-22 fleet since 2008.

But despite publicly disclosing what it believes to be the root cause of the Raptor's problems, the USAF says that it has not yet finished a written report that summarizes all the various tests, analysis and findings to support its conclusions.

Kevin Divers, a former USAF rated physiologist and F-22 flight test engineer, disputes Schwartz's assertions.

Divers was the life support test-pilot vehicle interface officer responsible for testing and certifying both the original contractor furnished flight gear and the current flight gear on the Raptor fleet.
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articl ... es-374893/
gives an overview of most current problems (including the "Raptor cough") , also those involving ground crew getting ill when working with the F-22 Raptor.

Also see
http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2012/0 ... wered.html
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Re: F-22 Oxygen problems: solution found...or is it ??

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Could make the latest F-22A deployment to Kadena "interesting".
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