Air Force Believes It Has Fix For Hypoxia Issues In T-6 Trainers
February 13 2019
The U.S. Air Force is implementing a set of upgrades on its T-6 Texan II trainer fleet to address a spate of unexplained physiological events, including hypoxia, that occurred in early 2018, reports the Air Force Times.
Several T-6 pilots reported the symptoms in November 2017. Training operations were suspended for three weeks before resuming on Dec. 5, 2017. The T-6 fleet was grounded again, this time for a month, in January 2018.
Hypoxia is a physiological symptom caused by too...
Please log in to continue reading.
Not yet a subscriber? Take a free trial.
Military Periscope gives you easy-to-use, integrated, open-source intelligence on…
- More than 7,500 weapons systems and platforms
- Nearly every country's armed forces
- Militant organizations
Try Military Periscope free for seven days
Your online source for military news, weapons, and nation's armed forces worldwide
Military Periscope FEDLINK information
Service ID: UC
Contract Number: LCFDL24D0002
Military Periscope is a product of GovExec.
600 New Hampshire Ave., Suite 510,
Washington DC, 20037, USA.
customerservice@militaryperiscope.com
©Military Periscope 2025
All rights reserved. Redistribution of the content is prohibited without prior consent of Military Periscope.