OXYGEN FOR FILOTS
SUPER-CHARGED FLYERS
BREATHING SIX MILES HIGH
When flying six miles high, a pilot must have extra oxygen to breathe; otherwise he could on in that thin, cold atmosphere. So he must take 1 his oxygen supply with him. But that is not enough if he is to remain active there; and in U.S.A., where deep interest is taken in this sub-stratosphere flying of the future, they are experimenting with super-charging the pilot with oxygen before he goes up. He is put in an oxygen room where he treads the pedals of a stationary bicycle for half an hour. The 1 work done and measured is equal to a good two-mile walk. By this proceeding he replaces the nitrogen of the air in his lungs Avith oxygen, and so that no superfluous nitrogen shall leak in he goes straight into a chamber attached to the oxygen room, and breathes his own special supply of oxygen from a kind of gas mask, while putting on his flying suit with all its gadgets for warning and other purposes. High flyers of the future will be super-charged pilots.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 196, 22 December 1941, Page 4
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187OXYGEN FOR FILOTS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 196, 22 December 1941, Page 4
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