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Old 17th February 2010 | 12:27
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Some years back, Hunter pilots would occasionally suffer a condition known as "Hunter's Lung" IIRC. It was caused by pulling high G levels whilst breathing 100% oxygen instead of Airmix and resulted in a partial collapse of a lung - the recovery was simply to relax the G and then cough (to re-inflate the lung). I'm fairly certain that no one ever suffered any subsequent ill-effects, even with numerous occurrences.
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