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All Navy T-45 Trainers To Get A New Oxygen-Monitoring System, Wicker Says

Wednesday, December 13th, 2017

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All Navy T-45 Trainers To Get A New Oxygen-Monitoring System, Wicker Says

A T-45C Goshawk training jet approaches an aircraft carrier. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy)

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower said Wednesday the Navy is working to equip every T-45C Goshawk trainer aircraft with a new oxygen-monitoring system by February.In a statement, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said this and other new upgrades “should help alert pilots to dangerous declines in oxygen production or pressure levels.”The chairman also disclosed that the Navy has grounded all T-45s that do not have this full set of modifications and it is also “developing a…

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