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>> You know we've got to
come with a better system,

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a better way to make sure

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that these pilots are getting
the oxygen and the protection

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that they need to go fly.

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>> If you're low on oxygen,
basically sometimes get euphoric

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or you'll get sleepy or
you'll kind of pass out.

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And obviously if you have

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to fly the airplane
that's not a good scenario.

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>> The Navy and the Air Force
has been experiencing problems

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with oxygen levels and content,
and pilots blacking out.

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>> You know you have
aircraft data.

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You have some, you
don't have a lot.

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But what you don't have
is any instrumentation

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on the pilot and
their breathing.

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And so what we were really
focused on was really trying

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to identify the root
cause in the pilot.

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Remember, physiological episodes
happen in people not aircraft.

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So if you don't have
the pilot instrumented,

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then you're really
not going to be able

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to help resolve the problems.

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>> Crew assignments,
I'll be in the jet,

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you guy will be in
the control room.

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Jack will be talking
on the radio.

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>> I'll be on the radio.

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>> The use of this project is
going to go for a long time.

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Because it's going to
establish a fundamental data set

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on how pilots breathe in
a tactical environment.

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>> High performance type
aircraft like fighter jets,

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over the years they've become
more and more advanced.

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They can fly with higher
g's, they fly faster,

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they fly at higher
angles of attack.

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With all of those increases,
physiological effects

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on pilots has increased
dramatically.

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>> Every pilot is
going to be different

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on how they react to something.

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Cause they want to kind of
baseline what you're like before

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and what you're like after.

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>> So how do we gather the data?

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How does it go through
this process

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from the aircraft all
the way through to arrive

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at the analyst's desk?

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And what do they do with it?

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>> And one of the first things
we have to do is we have to look

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and see what kind of
flight they're doing.

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If they're doing a Navy
configuration flight

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or an Air Force configuration
flight.

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>> We'll take spirometry,
which is basically looking

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at lung capacity at the time.

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We do that like an
hour before the flight,

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just right after we
strap into the cockpit.

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And then when we come back we'll
do that again in the cockpit,

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and then after we've been
out for about an hour.

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>> The red 97 is
monitoring their pulse,

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their oxygen saturation
in their blood.

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Its also monitoring how
fast they're breathing.

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>> And that should be it.

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>> Pilot wears a VigilOX
system made by Cobham.

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With the VigilOX system, it
measures a lot of key parameters

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that are used for important

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for understanding what
the pilot is breathing

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in and breathing out.

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>> Put this side in first.

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>> In order to capture
all the data that we want,

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the pilots are flying
different profiles.

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Some are just high-altitude
flights,

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where you're flying
40 to 50,000 feet.

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Other ones are more
aerobatic, that's where they're

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up there doing spins
and turns and dives.

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>> And then, and we
correlate that type of flight

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and how it changes you know,
kind of your lung capacity

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or those kinds of things.

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So that's what the
scientists are looking for.

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>> We embarked on this with
the idea that we have a lot

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of complex test methods
that we're developing.

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And at the end of this, one of
our goals originally is we want

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to be able to develop test
methods that are useful

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to the Air Force and to
the Navy in the sense

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that they can be used in a
repeatable, consistent way

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that provide really
quality data.

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That then we can compare our
results with the Navy's results,

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and the Air Force's results.

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>> So I think this
will help make sure

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that the designs we have are
set for what the pilot needs.

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Cause if we don't really know
what the pilot needs very well,

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we can't design to that.

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And previous systems I think
just had a lot of margin

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to be able to accept
different needs from a pilot.

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But now that we've gotten you
know, closer to designing those

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to basically just what
they need, we really need