Now, for the first time, pilots can safely experience real hypoxia in a flight simulator without leaving the ground. FlightSafety has teamed up with the Mayo Clinic to create a device that changes the ...

Researchers have demonstrated a technique that may enable real-time, in-flight detection of hypoxia in pilots. The findings indicate that volatile organic compound (VOC) analysis could identify ...

In a recent study published in Thorax, researchers explored how alcohol consumption and exposure to hypobaric hypoxia interact to affect heart rate, blood oxygen saturation (SpO 2), and sleep. Their ...

WASHINGTON – The Air Force on Friday temporarily stopped flying F-35 fighter jets at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona in response to a series of incidents in which pilots reported symptoms of hypoxia, ...

An A-10 thunderbolt is parked on the tarmac at the Namest air force base near Brno, Czech Republic, where it is taking part in joint NATO military exercises called Ramstein Rover. The exercise is ...

The 19th Air Force has suspended all solo flights in T-6 Texan trainer aircraft ― both for students and instructor pilots ― over concerns about hypoxia and other so-called unexplained physiological ...

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An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 355th Fighter Squadron, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, receives fuel over the Pacific Ocean May 23. (Senior Airman Yosselin Campos/Air Force) Five years after ...

A pilot in Australia was reported to have fallen asleep midflight "likely due to a combination of fatigue and mild hypoxia [lack of sufficient oxygen]," according to the latest report Wednesday by the ...