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1959
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14 FLIGHT 2 JANUARY 1959 For a time it looked as though they might have to give it up. Because space and weight restrictions made it more and more difficult to squeeze vast supplies of oxygen into aircraft which were forever flying higher and higher. But British Oxygen for a long time had been selling liquid oxygen to their customers. Liq uid oxygen is 861 times denser than gaseous oxygen and is Stored at one tenth of the pressure so the equipment for its use is lighter and smaller. Just the thing to keep aircraft designers happy! So B.O. A.E. designed a liquid oxygen automatic supply system consisting of a converter, three valves, piping and electronic contents gauging, which provided gaseous oxygen for breathing purposes. It is now being supplied for the English Electric Lightning, De Havilland Sea Vixen, Vickers Supermarine Scimitar, Fairey Gannet, Folland Gnat Trainer and other advanced aircraft. It will keep the pilots of these aircraft happy too! '", •""-^' I .'- British Oxygen Aro Equipment THE PINNACLES • HAKLOW • ESSEX Brrltlsh Oxygen Aro Equipment combines the resources of the British Oxygen group of companies and the Aro Equipment Corporation of Ohio
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