Installation and Data Acquisition from a Real Time Air Quality Sensor (RTAQS) Monitoring Pilot Breathing Air

This study revolved around the flight testing of a sensor suite built to address the need for detection elements to protect United States Air Force pilots. A set of gaseous sensors specific to O2, CO2, CO, NOx species, and hydrocarbons both laboratory and flight testing. Additionally, thermal desorption (TD) tube was collected for contaminant discovery through gas chromatography mass spectrometry analysis. Thirty-two sorties were flown. Of the sensors O2, CO, and CO2 returned measurable values. Overall, both the sensor readings and the TD tube sampling were successful in monitoring the breathing air supplied to the pilot.This paper is part of: "2017 International Aircraft Cabin Air Conference : Conference Proceedings". In: Journal of Health and Pollution, Vol. 9, No. 24 (Dec. 2019