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Old 15th March 2008 | 12:48
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If you filled your plane with pure oxygen, you could fly unpressurized to FL370 or above (how high?)
You would have to pre-breath neat O2 for a couple of hours beforehand and all the way up to altitude until your body was free of nitrogen. Decompression sickness can ruin your whole day.
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