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Lookfortruth wrote:This looks like a fun game. My fav saying is "where did he learn to negotiate like that", from the fifth element.
I am going to move this to the believers playground
I figured it was "whatever"...I didn't even know there was a "playground"...I bet that comes as no shock to many at this board, lol.
Lookfortruth wrote:I figured it was "whatever"...I didn't even know there was a "playground"...I bet that comes as no shock to many at this board, lol.
Welcome to the playground Peri.
This is a great place to rest after debates.
BeTheMoon wrote:mommyjen wrote:I am not sure I have a favorite but all I can think of now is, "If you like to talk to tomatoes..." Maybe that gives me away being a mom of two little kids
Hello shillren!
(The peas from Jake and the Big Wall)
kazbo wrote:Inconceivable!
Do you want me to send you back where I found you? Unemployed? In Greenland?
Never go up against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line!
Truly you have a dizzying intellect.
I'm waitinnnng!
And others from The Princess Bride.
Mmmm....how shall I do it? I know....I'll turn him into a flea, a harmless little flea. Then I'll put that flea in a box, I'll put that box in a bigger box, and I'll mail that box to myself. And when it arrives....ha ha ha ha - I'LL SMASH IT WITH A HAMMER!!! ............or, to save on postage, I'll just poison him with this! Take it Kronk, feeeel the power.
- Oh, I can feel it.
Our moment of triumph approaches - it's DINNERTIME!
From The Emperor's New Groove
"I wish The Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had ever happened.";
"So do all who live to face such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.";
- Gandalf to Frodo, in the Mines of Moria
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NEW YORK, Sept. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MeeGenius, a leading reading application for children, explored where children focus their attention during story time through a first of its kind, Eye-Tracking study. The study found children focus closer on storybook text when it is read to them through the MeeGenius application as compared to an adult reading aloud.
MeeGenius used the Eye-Tracking technology from LookTracker, a Teknicks company, in support from EyeTracking, Inc., as a way to learn more about how children interact with digital stories to enhance the product. By following a child's gaze when reading, the study found exactly what part of the e-book was most compelling to the child. The surprising findings revealed that:
"MeeGenius wanted to better understand the needs of our very young users, and the study results found that when the application read to the child, he or she was more likely to follow the highlighted text which is a key step in enhancing reading skills," said Wandy Hoh, CEO and Co-Founder of MeeGenius. "MeeGenius was created to help children sharpen their early reading skills, especially in today's busy households of dual income parents and on-the-go families. The app is designed to be used as part of a comprehensive at-home reading program to keep children learning and help busy parents balance their schedule. The Eye-Tracking findings will help our team to make a better product for parents and children."
A recent survey of parents conducted by MeeGenius found over 80 percent agree they should read with their children more often, with 57 percent feeling that access to a digital library of children's books would encourage more reading to their children.
"Another finding that surprised us was the MeeGenius professional narration was much slower (37 percent) than parents reading the same book. When it comes to reading, technology can actually help slow us down," said Hoh. "Children will spend over one million hours this year reading with MeeGenius on phones or tablets as it is filled with curated, quality reading content that parents can feel good about putting in front of their children."
MeeGenius e-books are available with read-along word highlighting, illustrations, and optional "read-to-me" narration and works across any device. The findings of the study will be used to help MeeGenius in product development.
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The Bulldogs were off to a hot start in their season opener, but Ingomar did not back down, keeping up with New Albany until the final frame of the 'Dawgs 68-58 win Monday night.
New Albany raced to a 22-13 lead after the first, led by Tadarius Coburn's eight points. The Bulldogs fell cold in the second, and two technical fouls helped bring Ingomar back into the game. Wesley Jumper gave the Falcons their first lead, 27-26, but New Albany would maintain a two-point advantage, 30-28 at the half.
"We knew they were going to attack the basket," NAHS head coach Brad Gray said. "They always do, and they're good at it. They're good at rotating and taking the charge, and we did a poor job defensively and we did a very poor job of playing under control on offense."
Jumper would tie the game in the third and gave Ingomar the lead, 34-32, as the senior had 14 second half points. The Falcons would lead by as many as seven before Jevonte Newsome helped the Bulldogs regain the lead.
"He does such a good job creating off the dribble and he can hit some very tough shots," Gray said of Jumper. "He's an overall great player and a competitor. He never left the floor, never came out of the game and he didn't wear down or get tired. He was making same shots in the fourth quarter as he was in the first quarter. You have to give that kid a lot of credit."
Coburn stepped up once again with nine fourth quarter points, 21 overall, as New Albany (1-0) picked up the win. Moses Kingsley added 14 points, while Daniel Drummond and Newsome each added 10 points.
"I told them before the game that they knew Ingomar was going to play hard and we were going to get their absolute best," Gray said. "I just preached to them to not listen to what everyone is saying about how good you are, and I think that anyone who saw this game tonight knows we're not as good as they say we are. The sooner our kids start buying into that philosophy instead of listening to what others say about them, we'll have this same result every night."
Jumper led Ingomar (0-2) with 23 points, while Steven Foster added 13 and Henry Foster 11 points.
New Albany will travel to Myrtle Thursday night and Ingomar will travel to Pine Grove and North Pontotoc.
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The occupational hazards of flying the U-2.
- By Mark Betancourt
- Air & Space magazine, May 2012
Lt. Col. (Ret.) Jeff Olesen
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Kevin Henry thought the tiny red dots on his skin were insect bites. But as he relaxed at a Florida beach house with a fellow pilot on a day off in 1990, he noticed he was the only one getting bitten. Henry wouldn't learn until later that the dots were capillaries breaking under the strain of nitrogen bubbles that had formed during his latest flight in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, 10 hours earlier. He would find out the hard way how much worse it could get.
Henry had been flying the U-2 since 1987, and has seen it go from flying over South Korea and Panama to being a constant presence over battlefields in Afghanistan and, until last year, Iraq. Like most others in the elite club of U-2 pilots (there are only 35 to 50 actively flying at any time), Henry is tough and matter-of-fact, but also somewhat romantic about flying the famous jet at 70,000 feet, twice the cruising altitude of commercial airliners—high enough to see the curvature of Earth.
But flying so high has a cost. The dots that Henry saw on his skin and the itching, crawling sensation that he felt were just a couple of the symptoms of altitude-induced decompression sickness. Most people know DCS by its common name, the bends, a condition suffered by divers who rise too quickly from the high pressure at depth to the lower pressure near the water's surface. (In medical terms, "bends" refers only to the DCS sufferer's joint pain.)
Pilots can experience the same physical reactions by flying up into the thin air at high altitudes. U-2 pilots are especially at risk, not just because of their extreme altitude but also because their cockpits are only partially pressurized. The pressure in a U-2 cockpit at typical mission altitude is equivalent to the atmosphere at 29,000 feet—as high as the summit of Mt. Everest. To cope, U-2 pilots breathe pure oxygen for an hour before their flight and wear a kind of pressurized spacesuit. Pre-breathing oxygen helps purge nitrogen from their bodies. If nitrogen remains even after pre-breathing and the pilot goes up, the thin atmosphere will cause the nitrogen dissolved in the body's blood and tissue to essentially boil. The same principle is at work when you open a can of soda: Release the pressure and the dissolved gas rushes to escape, in the form of bubbles. In the human body, bubbles can cause extreme pain, bruising, brain damage, and, without treatment, death.
In March 2006, Henry started experiencing symptoms more severe than the itchy dots he'd had 16 years earlier. This time, however, he was several hours into a combat mission, in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in the Middle East, and more than 13 miles above the ground. "The first thing that happened was the pain in my knees," he says. "I kind of blew it off because it was very, very light. But this was bilateral"—the pain was in both knees. "They never taught us before: Bilateral is bad. So I just pressed on, of course; that's what we do."
Over the next five hours, Henry developed an intense headache, nausea, and extreme fatigue. The pain got worse. At one point, he hallucinated that the airplane had rolled 30 degrees to the left. He began to feel disoriented and sluggish, a sensation he likens to intoxication. At one point, he snapped awake, not realizing he'd dozed off.
"That's when I go, Okay, I'm not feeling well, and I had to fess up," he says. He hadn't wanted to be grounded due to what he thought was an inconsequential medical problem, or to let the younger pilots hear that he returned complaining of a mere headache.
Henry contacted his ground mission supervisor, who woke up the squadron commander back at Beale Air Force Base in California. By that point, Henry had essentially forgotten how to fly his airplane.
Like Henry's red dots, many symptoms of DCS don't show up until after a pilot has landed, sometimes days later. The symptoms can be as minor as a headache or fatigue, so they're often ignored or attributed to dehydration, lack of sleep, even caffeine withdrawal. Says Henry: "We didn't talk about it, because back when I was growing up in the program it was like 'Oh, you'll get grounded.' "
Even though pilots were cautious never to appear too sick to fly, true DCS cases also used to be somewhat rare, and severe cases almost unheard of. Pre-breathing oxygen and a strict regimen of rest between flights were enough to keep pilots healthy. For decades, it was enemy fire, not nitrogen bubbles, that worried them.
But the U-2 program has seen more cases of DCS over the last decade than at any other time in its 56-year history. Since the war in Afghanistan started, in 2001, the average number of cases reported each year has almost doubled. More important, before 2002, no cases severe enough to hinder U-2 operations were reported, but between 2002 and 2009, there were 16 confirmed severe cases, five of which were deemed life-threatening. Nine of the pilots who experienced serious DCS symptoms reported long-lasting or permanent brain damage.
A study published in the July 2011 issue of the journal Aviation, Space, and Environmental Medicine analyzed 40 years of the military's medical records to find possible reasons for the shift. Three major factors seem to be contributing to the increase. First, pilots are flying more often. With a demanding new role—providing ground combat support in Afghanistan—U-2 pilots are flying 70 percent more hours on 122 percent more sorties than they did during the cold war.
U-2 pilots are also flying for longer stretches. During the cold war, flights rarely lasted longer than eight hours; now ground operations require U-2s to stay in the air for up to 12 hours. As a result, severe DCS cases over the last decade are concentrated among the pilots flying out of the primary support base for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Finally, fundamental changes in the work pilots are doing may also be making things worse. The study found that even mild exercise, including motions as simple as pressing foot pedals or raising an arm to flip a switch, can greatly increase the risk of DCS. Unlike cold war reconnaissance, today's missions require pilots to do much more in the cockpit—operating a radio, inputting navigational data, adjusting sensors—so the new mission itself could be partly responsible for releasing nitrogen bubbles through a pilot's bloodstream.
Lieutenant Colonel Sean Jersey, a physician and one of the study's authors, cites a potential fourth factor: stress. In the Soviet flyover days, U-2 pilots would head out to a target, snap pictures, and fly back. They could even sleep part of the way, letting the airplane fly on autopilot. Today, pilots must quickly react to changes on the battlefield, acting as a mobile relay station for communications and an eye in the sky for troops fighting on difficult terrain. They're also in constant contact with the soldiers on the ground, often during combat.
"Emotionally, I think they're wrung out from that," says Jersey. "When you're talking to somebody on the radio and there's gunfire in the background…you're not taking a nap while that's happening."
Lieutenant Colonel Blake Smith is a U-2 pilot who retired early last year. He often served as director of operations for the 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron, to which the U-2 is assigned, during the shift toward combat support missions, and he knew the pilots and their problems well. He remembers that when he joined the program in 1998, DCS was mostly a non-issue. Pilots might complain of minor joint pain, but once they were back on the ground and rested, their symptoms would generally get better.
"Years ago, whenever you mentioned you had a little bit of DCS, the reaction from the medical forces, and the reaction from the Air Force for that matter, was not as thorough and robust as it is now," says Smith.
What changed, he says, was the sudden appearance of DCS cases that affected the pilots' central nervous systems, something no one in the program was used to handling. On the way home from flying a long-duration combat mission for Enduring Freedom in late 2002, Major Greg Kimbrough suffered severe symptoms. Having been trained to expect joint pain and a headache, he had no idea that his inability to read fine print or recognize his landing field was indicative of decompression sickness. "What we got when we went through our initial training was the basics of it," says Kimbrough, "and that was all based on past events," when the cases were minor.
By the time he was having major symptoms at altitude, Kimbrough's cognition was so compromised that it never occurred to him to call for help. Somehow he was able to land his U-2 safely, but he has little memory of the last hours of the flight.
Kimbrough was one of the first U-2 pilots to experience central nervous system DCS, also called Type II DCS. In the following months more cases cropped up. The Air Force took notice, but because flight doctors still didn't understand exactly how and why DCS affects pilots, they were slow to find ways of coping with the new threat. Air Force physiologists pored over Kimbrough's equipment, trying to find out why the normal pre-breathe precautions had failed. Pilots were told to pre-breathe for a longer time, but they weren't given more rest between flights. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continued, the missions stayed long, and pilots continued to get sick.
According to Jersey, the Air Force's attitude toward DCS changed significantly in 2006. He thinks the squadron was overconfident in the attention they were paying DCS prevention, "until Kevin Henry really woke everybody up."
Henry had already vomited into his pressure-sealed helmet by the time his squadron commander got on the data link, the U-2's upgraded version of a radio. Henry had to take off the helmet so he could see, exposing his body to the much lower pressure in the cabin and further accelerating the development of symptoms. He tried putting coordinates for his home base into the autopilot, then realized he had forgotten how to use the device. Lieutenant Colonel Dave Russell, the squadron commander, had just gotten out of bed back in California, and began to talk Henry through the process of getting home.
Over the next three hours, with Russell's guidance, Henry managed to steer his U-2 toward a friendly air base in the Middle East. His short-term memory was gone; all he had to rely on was the muscle memory he'd developed as a young trainee. "I could still do basic airmanship stuff," he says, "you know, push forward on the yoke and the houses get bigger."
But even simple tasks were getting harder. As Henry neared the runway, Russell told him to put the landing gear down. When he reached for the handle, it wasn't there. He'd developed several blind spots in his vision, and had to grope around in the area where he knew the handle should be.
"Nothing made any sense," he says. "I had horns and lights going off, and I go, That means something important—I can't remember what that light means."
Henry doesn't remember the last 45 minutes of the flight. People watching from the ground later described to him the way he plummeted toward bunkers and hangars, sending ground crews running. When it became clear that Henry didn't know what to do next, a pair of Mirage jet fighters from the local air force helped to guide him down toward the runway.
After a number of unsuccessful landing attempts, Henry blacked out again, this time while headed straight for the ground.
"It was almost like it faded in," he says about the scene in front of him. "And there was a bunker in the middle of the windscreen. And just instinctively [I] did a traffic pattern stall recovery. You know, stuff that you learn from day one flying." An adrenaline rush momentarily cleared his head, and he pulled the airplane around and landed it in the middle of the runway. When the U-2 came to a stop, pilots on the ground had to drag Henry's limp body from the cockpit.
He wasn't out of the woods yet. Nitrogen gas had already ravaged his body; the treatment for people suffering from DCS is usually administered much earlier in the process. He was placed in a hyperbaric chamber, a pressurized room where a gradual shift from low to high pressure gives nitrogen gas time to dissolve back into the blood. For several days, he was in and out of the chamber, still in a haze and unable to remember simple things, like how to fasten a seat belt. Despite having been close to death, Henry recovered fully from his physical symptoms. The only visible evidence of his ordeal are scars that the bubbling nitrogen left on his skin.
Despite the recommendation of the neurologist who assessed him after the 2006 incident, Henry was cleared to fly with no restrictions. Smith acknowledges that he, too, saw pilots who continued to suffer from the effects of their DCS episodes even after they were cleared. Kimbrough says he felt fine to fly, but was still a little surprised the Air Force sent him back up to high altitude only six months after his incident. "I only know they needed me," he says.
A few months after he was cleared to fly, Henry had another brush with central nervous system DCS. At high altitude, he suddenly had the sensation of free-falling. Though completely awake, he slumped over in his seat, unable to move. He recovered and landed safely, but it quickly became clear that DCS had taken its toll on his brain. He was grounded permanently, and today has problems with short-term memory and reasoning.
In 2008, two years after Henry's incidents, the increasing frequency and severity of DCS cases among U-2 pilots prompted Jersey and his colleagues to look through the Air Force's medical records to see if they could find a pattern. As a new flight doctor at Beale, Jersey saw a DCS case his first week, and another soon after. He quickly realized that the Air Force had a serious problem. He and the other flight doctors, along with the squadron commander, went to Air Combat Command to request an investigation. A panel was formed to conduct a study and recommend what to do next.
Jersey points out that the study is based on military records alone, which are often inconsistent and can't substitute for proper observation of the incidence of DCS. It is also possible that the increase in the DCS cases reported is partly due to a change in culture within the U-2 program: The stigma around admitting illness has faded, and the Air Force has loosened its rules about permanently grounding sick pilots. The committee on DCS feels confident, however, that the risk has increased, and that the U-2 program needs to change the way it does things.
Henry says he first really understood what had happened to him when his wife sent him a Federal Aviation Administration brochure on DCS she'd found on the Internet shortly after his first severe incident. He says that his training lacked much of the basic information in the circular. He also thinks the Air Force needs to protect pilots by addressing the tempo of operations.
"We all love doing what we do," says Henry. "But I do think that it's senior leadership's job to be more conservative. It's our job to push hard, as the warrior. And then senior leadership needs to be there to pull back and go, 'Okay, appreciate the effort, but I want [you] to be safe.' " He also points out that there are only 33 U-2s in the Air Force fleet (NASA has two more), so the service can't afford to crash any.
Smith is more forgiving of the U-2 program's slowness to react. "I think the Air Force—as well as they understood the problem, as well as medical people could explain it to them—I think they tried to keep us safe," he says. "It's just, you know, things don't move that quickly in the Air Force."
The Air Force is now taking a number of steps to mitigate the risk to its U-2 pilots, partly as a result of Jersey's study, according to Lieutenant Colonel Tadd Sholtis, deputy director of public affairs at Air Combat Command. The service is more thoroughly tracking DCS incidents, which will enable further studies to better isolate its causes. U-2 pilots are also performing enhanced pre-breathing, which includes exercise, a practice already common in the astronaut corps. Most important, plans are under way to modify the cockpit's pressurization from the current 29,000-foot altitude equivalent to a much more comfortable 15,000-foot equivalent.
It will likely be several years before the Air Force knows whether the recent steps are helping. In the meantime, the war in Afghanistan continues to demand frequent, high-altitude flights by U-2 pilots.
For a few years it looked like the Air Force had an alternative to the U-2 that could render the DCS problem moot. The Northrop Grumman Global Hawk, an unmanned, remotely piloted drone, can fly almost as high, and do almost everything a U-2 can do. But this January the Pentagon announced it was cutting a variant of the Air Force's Global Hawk program, Block 30, that had the same capabilities as the U-2 but was not sufficiently cheaper to fly and maintain. With their retrofitted cockpits, the U-2 should be ready for many years of service.
Things are changing slowly but surely at Beale, and the veteran pilots are telling Jersey they can see a difference in the way the young pilots are being treated and educated about DCS. "A lot of them would have been out of the Air Force and out of a career, kind of like Kevin Henry," says Jersey. While they may not be able to return to the U-2 cockpit, many pilots who have suffered severe DCS are now flying lower in other aircraft.
Henry retired shortly after being grounded. These days, he trains U-2 pilots at Beale as a contractor, running them through the simulators and showing them how to operate, among other things, the autopilot. The Crew Resource Management department even put together an animation of his near-death experience to show rookies just how dangerous DCS can be. Despite the changes being made to the U-2 program to protect its pilots, Henry points out that pilots are still flying very long missions at 70,000 feet. He's skeptical of claims that they are safer now than they were in 2006. He hands out copies of the FAA brochure to all his students, just in case.
Mark Betancourt is a freelance writer, filmmaker, and radio producer living in Washington, D.C. His last feature was "World War II: The Movie" (Feb./Mar. 2012).
Comments (17)
I am sure that others, like me, appreciate the safety value in this presentation. Although we do not fly at extreme altitudes, it's like Captain Sully once said, "we learn by our experiences, and the experiences of others; and we keep them in our bank of knowledge because someday we may have to make a big withdrawal." All pilots and crew are blessed to have these kinds of experiences shared with us. Thank you NASA.
Posted by Anson L. Stelmak on March 22,2012 | 03:49 PM
There are four types of decompression sickness, Central Nervous System disorders, Chokes (gas bubbles between the lungs and chest wall) Bends or joint pain, and gas bubbles between the skin and tissue. One of the rules about decompression sickness onset reductions is to limit the exercise prior to flight or exposure to altitude above 25,000 ft and no exercise after exposure to 25,000 ft for 24 hours. Your article describes an onset point or date that DCS problems started to increase. That date is the date that the pilot pre-takeoff routine was changed to a per-breathe program that included a period of exercise while breathing oxygen. Studies done at Brooks AFB School of Aerospace Medicine for NASA on a de-nitgronatization study were able to show that exercise helped to remove nitrogen if the pre-breathe period was short, 15 minutes or less, for periods for as long as one hour there was no difference in the amount of residugal N2 in the blood in excersie or non exercise subjects. The difference was that subjects that exercise durning pre-breathing were treated for decompression sickness at a greater rate than non-exercise subjects. The single change is exercise while prebreathing. Maybe the individual task is different but the workload is about the same, arm and hand movement is restricted to a set of motions that were set when the aircraft was designed in 1968. Even in the days when the U-2 flew with a 30 minute pre-breathing routine and a 10+ hour flight time the DCS problem was some joint pain and that incident rate was reduced when the pre-breathing time went to one hour. The Air Force physiological Training program goes back to pre-WW II and sometimes old issues that were put to bed have to be relearned and the bad part is that they have to be relearned the hard way.
Posted by Thomas Urie on March 22,2012 | 03:52 PM
I have seen many incidents that also went unreported due to knowledge of being booted out.
Posted by Chris on March 23,2012 | 11:40 AM
I wonder if you considered how we managed not to get the bends (nitrogen narcosis; Caision disease) when deep diving.
We used a helium-oxygen breathing mixture. It works.
Posted by VF Garry.,MD.,BABT on March 23,2012 | 04:22 PM
It would be interesting to know why the cabin pressure altitude was designed originally for 29,000 feet. At the end of the article, it's mentioned that this will be substantially reduced. So what were the engineering decisions that led to choosing the 29K foot pressure altitude to begin with? One thought would be that it would have something to do with strengthening the structure to maintain a larger pressure difference would add weight, but since the pressurized area is small in relation to the size of the plane, it seems this would be negligible. Any other thoughts/answers?
Posted by Mark Puscas on March 24,2012 | 01:07 PM
Please don't underestimate the severity of Kevin Henry's DCS episode. This article hints that it was serious, but it was the worst DCS case in the Air Force's history. The skills and reactions he had developed over almost 20 years flying the aircraft kept him alive. There are a multitude of factors that caused Kevin and numerous other U-2 pilot's decompression episodes. The war we are fighting and the truly unique role the U-2 pilot plays in supporting our forces in harms way prevent the Air Force from eliminating all of those factors; they are doing all they can, without decreasing capabilities. None of us who flew the U-2 were unaware of these risks; we volunteered to take them in order to deliver intelligence no other aircraft, manned or unmanned, can deliver. During the same time frame as Kevin Henry's incident, I was proud to receive numerous letters from deployed commanders on the ground in the war zone thanking the U-2 pilots from my squadron for the part they played in providing time critical intelligence that allowed the safe return of their forces to base. While this article highlights the significance of the dangers of decompression sickness, sadly, the determination of the cost of that exposure will likely never be known. A review of the medical records of pilots who, as the article stated, did not report DCS will not deliver the needed answers, especially for those who suffered central nervous system DCS. The only way to determine how much damage was suffered is to examine the pilots for lingering effects such as vascular damages that may only be seen by special MRI, not a review of medical records filled with partial reporting; the Air Force should spend the money it takes to properly document any damage done. Those pilots that suffered DCS will have a better quality of life and receive appropriate disability ratings after years of incredibly dangerous service.
Posted by Dave Russell on March 24,2012 | 06:20 PM
In the original U-2 Program the cockpit was pressurized to stay at about 23,000 ft at altitude. We wore partial pressure suits and pre-breathed for one hour before flight. Although the organization I was assigned to seldom flew missions over 8-9 hours, I remember no ill effects as discussed in the article.
Posted by Lachlan Macleay on March 25,2012 | 01:32 PM
I can see the objection to VF Gary, MD's comment on helium breathing since, on the face of it, it is the upside down version of the threat. However: I think it valid to research the possibilities. I have a neighbour who works in refrigeration and air conditioning. After about twenty years of service he was diagnosed with being saturated with R22 refrigerant to the extent of 40% in his bloodstream.
Exactly what that percentage means, I do not know, but his ankles are the size of his calves and he could barely walk. Now, after extensive and serious treatment he is slowly recovering.
The point of this story is the solution of miscible gases in the bloodstream. You suffer from carbon monoxide poisoning not from lack of oxygen, but from asphyxiation by gas replacement in the haemoglobin bonds.
It seems that a replacement gas could take the place of nitrogen the way helium does in deep diving.
Then again, warriors are per force trained to react quickly. How does it happen that the Air Force "takes such a long time to react" to such a dire threat to combatants and equipment?
Posted by Chris Kirsten on March 26,2012 | 05:07 PM
Having worked on both the U-2 Dragon Lady and the SR-71 Blackbird, the conditions these crews endure is beyond comprehension. During active missions (non-training) some flight profiles would boggle the mind: time, distance, altitude, situational conditions, all while trying to execute on technical activities that over-task any normal person just sitting at their desk.
Every crew I spent time with (pre-flighted, debriefed, supported) were the best of the best. I believe the knowledge they were given about their flight profile(s) was extensive, as was their training. The dedication to serve in support of the entire mission is why they do what they do. Their mission supports everyone, and I mean everyone, even those who are lost at sea or trapped by enemy fire.
Ground crews face harsh chemicals, dangerous situations specific to the aircraft (intakes, exhaust, power, ejection equipment, metals and coatings, electronics and emissions), and long hours stressing over whether our crews are safe. We take extra pains to ensure what we do will not jeopardize our crews as they execute the most dangerous missions - and so they can come home safe to their families.
Thank You for providing all the readers a closer look at one of the most unbelievable opportunities any one person could ever dream being a part!
Posted by Steve Glaiser on March 27,2012 | 01:30 AM
Thank you, Steve, you make my point exactly. I am trained and has served as a flight safety officer - air steward in the vernacular, Hazchem road transport and passenger driver and several other people related jobs. Mostly under shift working conditions.
I know, understand and appreciate the exacting standards and execution of the American aerospace industry; as can be seen for instance in Boeing and other types of aircraft. Oh yes, I can fly too. I am habitually under the impression of the value of people's lives. I also understand public liability. Nothing gets done in a haphazard fashion. One does have to be careful of paralysis by analysis, though.
Just recently I was presented with two books; Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert and The Biology of Belief by Bruce H Lipton, Ph.D's both in cell biology/biochemistry. Besides the research reported, the slews of references to the work of other similarly inclined scientists show one thing only. The depth of technology and research is there.
My question is addressed to the upper echelons. Or is it more of the same as seen in the treatment of Vietnam, Afghan and Iraq vets who are dismissed under specific diagnoses to save the administration money in retirement funds? What value now the policy to bring every body home?
Posted by Chris Kirsten on March 28,2012 | 04:28 PM
"It would be interesting to know why the cabin pressure altitude was designed originally for 29,000 feet. At the end of the article, it's mentioned that this will be substantially reduced. So what were the engineering decisions that led to choosing the 29K foot pressure altitude to begin with?"
The U-2 flies at very high altitudes and is sensitive to weight gain. According to another U-2 article here, every additional pound of weight means 1 foot lower operating altitude. Lowering the cabin altitude means it has to withstand a higher pressure, which in turn requires a heavier structure. That hurts performance, but so does having your pilots get sick. It may also be a factor with how much air you can bleed off of your engine to increase the cabin pressure and if that will impact performance.
Posted by Larry J on April 4,2012 | 05:07 PM
On another note, a couple of UAL pilots had a problem with the bends. I flew the ORD-HNL route many, many times - in the DC8-62, The DC-10, and the 747. It was about 9 hrs. over and 8 hrs, back. We left HNL in the late afternoon so had most of the day to fool around. A couple of the guys in other crews went SCUBA diving on their layover, dried off, jumped in the plane and started home. I never heard just how they were affected, but the company put a stop to the diving, and the FAA came out with some rule about flying after diving.
I remember we were supposed to get fitted for pressure suits when we got the F-8 but that fell through. I remember the lecture that blood boiled at 68M and I tried a zoom climb to go higher just to say I'd done it. If I had flamed out up there I thought I would be SOL, but the cockpit would probably have kept enough pressure to get back below 68. Reading about those U-2 pilots reminds me how dumb a 1st Lt. let loose with an F-8 rocket can be.
I still remember the U-2s in the hanger next to us at Atsugi - taking off straight up in the morning and coming back in the evening. Getting arrested if you walked by their hanger on the way to group headquarters. My claustrophobia would have done me in in that pressure suit and small cockkpit for that long. True heroes.
Posted by Rick Carlton on April 5,2012 | 08:46 AM
I did the usual hot scramble FJ-4 quick start, hitting the crank button while coming over the side of the cockpit, and strapping in while the engine fired up and ready to give the pull chocks signal by the time it was at idle.
I was running the cockpit closed as we turned onto the runway and we made a rolling blast-off. We were climbing out, getting vectors, and scanning for the slant-eyed bogey. Going through about 30M I started to feel funny. I then realized I couldn't move my right arm and it was all numb. I had to pick up my arm with my left hand, set it aside on the console, and fly with my left. I was pretty confused. I radioed the lead that I had to break off and about then I looked at that little gauge half hidden under the gear handle that i never looked at - the cockpit altitude gauge. My cockpit was at the same altitude I was - I had never pressurized. In the haste of the hot scramble, my bailout oxygen bottle hose - that little thin, black hose - had kinked up and gotten caught between the canopy and windshield frame as the canopy slid forward, preventing the cockpit from pressurizing.
Coming back to base, I declared an emergency and landed OK using my left hand for both stick and throttle. The Skipper, squadron flight surgeon, and some others met me (I wish I could remember his name), and when I described what had happened he said I had the bends. He said I was really lucky because the nitrogen bubble had blocked the nerve in my shoulder. If the bubble had been in a slightly different place I would have been in extreme pain. I was a pretty heavy smoker back then and he said that, and the fast climb to altitude both contributed to the the bubble forming. He grounded me for a couple of days and I was OK after that.
I know we all went through the altitude chamber in training and knew about lack of oxygen and all of that, but nobody ever mentioned the bends that I remember.
Posted by Rick Carlton on April 5,2012 | 08:50 AM
I've seen a reference by a Space Station astronaut to "the space stupids", a loss of mental acuity in orbit. Could that be a mild case of the same phenomenon?
Posted by Alan Rocker on April 5,2012 | 05:49 PM
@VF Garry - as you say, helium in the breathing mix guards against nitrogen narcosis for deep diving where ppN2 is elevated. however, nitrogen narcosis is not an issue at altitude where the ppN2 is lower than at ground level, & hence helium is no advantage.
Posted by Andy Harding on April 16,2012 | 08:41 PM
I was amazed by the stories told, it put me in a postion like I was really there! I would like to become a pilot when I grow up! Let's hope some day I will be able to fly a U-2...without the dcs, which is surely taken care of now thanks to today's technology. good luck to aspiring U-2 pilots.
Posted by cullen joseph on April 25,2012 | 10:26 AM
The older you are, the less circulation in the joints you have and the longer it takes to de-nitrogenate the body. Back in the 80's it wasn't uncommon for the older guys to experience the bends on the long ops sorties. So, where are you gonna go? Down? I don't think so. Lots of us just dialed up pressure on the suits and forged ahead. It relieved the symptoms some but, eventually, you were in a rigid suit and just watching the clock's second hand until you could finally start down.
Some genius allowed a researcher to do a study where he placed a little sonar on our chests in the altitude chamber and took us up to about 25K without oxygen. Long before you had any symptoms, you could hear on the sonar the little hiss, hiss of bubbles in the blood going through your heart. The drivers quit the study after just a few of us went through this. Damned goofy to intentionally induce crap like that after preaching to us for years that a case of the bends would ground us.
Posted by Mike Danielle on January 20,2013 | 11:46 AM


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Major Dick winters led his men to combat on.
1944 he's also one of the inspirations on HBO's award winning miniseries band of Brothers.
And a personal hero to twelve year old Jordan Brown.
-- Jordan has helped raise almost 100000.
Dollars for a memorial dedicated to major winters.
Jordan and the chairman of the world -- -- foundation Tim gray joins us now as they prepare to -- enormity.
To dedicate a monument next week welcomed the both of you great to have you here today.
Thank you -- great things for me.
Door to begin with you what any effort -- made and why -- you so moved by the story.
World War II hero Dick winters who was a leader in the parachute infantry regiment of the 101 airborne division.
He was a great guy who's always on -- -- they trust them.
They did so much on.
Why did you thought you needed to honor him in this very special way with the statue enormity.
The -- dedicated to -- his serve journey then.
And also not -- things.
Have been done recently for like World War II heroes especially those on the European campaign.
So I just -- some need to be something needed to be done there.
Even if he's around raising so much money by having wrist bands that say hanging tough after that something bad to make of energy to -- his folks.
That's been going amazingly well what -- your message to folks out there as to why they should by the -- -- -- -- -- tough was.
What he would -- -- -- and it encourages people it's inspiring.
But it it shows people the right path.
-- wasn't so amazing about this special campaign for you as -- watching Jordan over the last.
Of several months racist money for this special hero.
-- I think the most important thing is is when Jordan started this he was eleven years old.
And for an eleven year old boy.
To take on a project like this because he still believes in World War II heroes I thought was miraculous.
The fact that he stuck with it for two and a half years.
And and really.
Was determined to meet with civic groups to march in parades.
To help plan.
Charity baseball games to help plan the goings on of those games and things he he just stuck -- it.
And it really reaffirms your your belief that that the youth in this nation recognize the sacrifices that not only the World War II veterans made.
But but all veterans have very impressed with the.
Oh indeed is amazing.
Jordan I know this is such a passionate issue for you and I know you're excited about going to Normandy.
Next week -- what's gonna be the best thing about this trip for you to finally -- a statue being unveiled.
A lot of things the statue is one major thing.
I like the war or two as you know.
And I really wanna learn more about today and like the battle was so.
I'll be touring some of the beaches and the battle fields which I'm so excited for a kid -- -- blogging about the fight here.
On WFIWWITF.
Com or.
-- WI TF dot org slash hanging dash tough is my blog so we can follow you.
Her adventures as you go to France next week I know your folks' -- very very proud of you we're very proud of view.
You're an aspiring young man and thank you so much for taking up this cause for.
An individual who was such a big hero for our country and one who inspired so many of us thank you very much and good luck to you.
Thank you and they send me on him all the best selling so well go -- sorry.
And also I want to think that that's for all their work absolutely it's a special weekend and we definitely Leinart to perhaps to our veterans in this country thank.
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Foreign Minister Bogollagama proposed that Sri Lanka and Fiji seek wider areas for bilateral exchanges in human resources in the fields of legal and medical services and technical cooperation, in keeping with Sri Lanka's policy of a more Asia centric focus on international cooperation, when the Foreign Minister of Fiji, Ratu Inoke Kabuabola called on him today (21/09) in New York. The Fijian Foreign Minister was thankful for the six Sri Lankan judges who had been recruited to serve in Fiji when their Chief Justice had visited Sri Lanka. They exchanged views with regard to the procedure of processing the Continental Shelf applications which both Sri Lanka and Fiji have filed and underlined the need to seek a fast tracking of this process.
The two Foreign Ministers also discussed the envisaged way forward following the suspension of Fiji from the Commonwealth. In keeping with the position President Mahinda Rajapaksa has advocated for Fiji, Minister Bogollagama informed that Sri Lanka took the position that countries should not be punished by exclusion from international platforms and groupings and underscored the imperative need to address national issues in accordance with domestic compulsions whilst respecting international norms which includes a realistic time frame. He observed that while the Fiji interim government was unable to fulfill the bench marks of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG), the undertaking that engagement would continue with the Commonwealth, demonstrated and acknowledged the intended cooperation by Fijii which was gratifying. Foreign Minister Bogollagama opined that Fiji should be seeking in making changes to its political agenda to create political pluralism through Constitutional reforms in a timely manner.
The Fijian Foreign Minister conveyed the appreciation of his Prime Minister for the understanding of the situation in Fiji which was reflected in the position taken by Sri Lanka during the recent deliberations of the CMAG and this issue. We explained the difficulties in meeting the time lines established by CMAG in respect of reactivating the political dialogue of the leaders and the elections to be held by 2010. The Fijian Foreign Minister informed that the interim government is seeking to initiate a national dialogue with the participation of the countries citizens. Further, it is his Government's wish to ensure socio-economic reform prior to the holding of elections which would take at least three years. He referred to the interim government seeking bring about reforms on land use and the Constitution in order to bring about a system of equality to both the indigenous people and Fijian Indians.
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TRUSTEE'S NOTICE OF SALE File No. 7037.71942 Reference is made to that certain trust deed made by Brian A. Bauska, unmarried, as grantor, to Key Title Company, as trustee, in favor of Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corp., as beneficiary, dated 06/02/03, recorded 06/17/03, in the mortgage records of Columbia County, Oregon, as 9278, covering the following described real property situated in said county and state, to wit: Parcel 1: That portion of tract conveyed to R.W. Burger et ux by deed recorded December 17, 1959 in Book 141, page 180, Deed Records of Columbia County, Oregon, described as follows: Beginning at an iron pipe set 217.88 feet North and 451.20 feet West of the quarter Section corner on the East side of Section 12, Township 3 North, Range 2 West of the Willamette Meridian, Columbia County, Oregon running thence South 20 degrees 6′ West on the Easterly line of said Burger tract 100 feet; thence North 64 degrees 12 1/2′ West along the Southerly line of said Burger tract, a distance of 100 feet; thence North 20 degrees 06′ East 100 feet to a point in the Northerly line of said Burger tract; thence South 64 degrees 13 1/2′ East a distance of 100 feet to the point of beginning. Parcel 2: An easement for a non-exclusive roadway over the following: Beginning at a point on the East line of tract of land described in deed to John T. Gilliam and Sadie J. Gilliam, recorded March 10, 1941 in Book 67, page 638, Deed Records of Columbia County, Oregon, said point being North 217.88 feet and West 451.20 feet and South 20 degrees 6′ West 100 feet from the quarter section corner on the East side of Section 12, Township 3 North, Range 2 West, Willamette Meridian, Columbia County, Oregon; thence from this point of beginning North 64 degrees 12 1/2′ West 200 feet to the Southeast corner of Lot 5, Block A, Hudkins Subdivision; thence South 20 degrees 06 West 60 feet to the Northeast corner of Lot 4, Block B, Hudkins Subdivision; thence South 64 degrees 12 1/2′ East 200 feet to the East line of said Gilliam tract; thence North 20 degrees 06′ East 60 feet to the point of beginning. PROPERTY ADDRESS: 33897 NE Prairie Street Scappoose, OR 97056 Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the real property to satisfy the obligations secured by the trust deed and a notice of default has been recorded pursuant to Oregon Revised Statutes 86.735(3); the default for which the foreclosure is made is grantor's failure to pay when due the following sums: monthly payments of $931.94 beginning 08/01/10; plus late charges of $0.00 each month beginning 08/16/10; plus prior accrued late charges of $132.94; plus advances of $351.20; together with title expense, costs, trustee's fees and attorney's fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. By reason of said default the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by the trust deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following, to wit: $96,873.35 with interest thereon at the rate of 5.5 percent per annum beginning 07/01/10; plus late charges of $0.00 each month beginning 08/16/10 until paid; plus prior accrued late charges of $132.94; plus advances of $351.20; together with title expense, costs, trustee's fees and attorneys fees incurred herein by reason of said default; any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein; and prepayment penalties/premiums, if applicable. WHEREFORE, notice hereby is given that the undersigned trustee will on June 29, 2012 at the hour of 10:00 o'clock, A.M. in accord with the standard of time established by ORS 187.110, at the following place: inside the main lobby of the Annex to the old Columbia County Courthouse, 230 Strand Street, in the City of St. Helens, County of Columbia, State of Oregon, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the interest in the described real property which the grantor had or had power to convey at the time of the execution by grantor of the trust deed, together with any interest which the grantor or grantor's successors in interest acquired after the execution of the trust deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including a reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that for reinstatement or payoff quotes requested pursuant to ORS 86.757 and 86.759 must be timely communicated in a written request that complies with that statute addressed to the trustee's "Urgent Request Desk" either by personal delivery to the trustee's physical offices (call for address) or by first class, certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the trustee's post office box address set forth in this notice. Due to potential conflicts with federal law, persons having no record legal or equitable interest in the subject property will only receive information concerning the lender's estimated or actual bid. Lender bid information is also available at the trustee's website, www.northwesttrustee.com. Notice is further given that any person named in ORS 86.753 has the right, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the trust deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or trust deed, and in addition to paying said sums or tendering the performance necessary to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and trust deed, together with trustee's and attorney's fees not exceeding the amounts provided by said ORS 86.753. Requests from persons named in ORS 86.753 for reinstatement quotes received less than six days prior to the date set for the trustee's sale will be honored only at the discretion of the beneficiary or if required by the terms of the loan documents. In construing this notice, the singular includes the plural, the word "grantor" includes any successor in interest to the grantor as well as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said trust deed, and the words "trustee" and "beneficiary" include their respective successors in interest, if any. The trustee's rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by this reference. You may also access sale status at www.northwesttrustee.com and www.USA-Foreclosure.com. For further information, please contact: Becky Baker Northwest Trustee Services, Inc. P.O. Box 997 Bellevue, WA 98009-0997 (425)586-1900 Bauska, Brian A. 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