On Feb 24, 5:44 pm, wrote:

The USAF Soar Eagle project in the early 80s IIRC used a LOX system in
their G103. Jim Payne could tell you all about it I suspect. I have
a copy of his Project Soar Eagle thesis document which details the
systems on this wave ship.

I don't think the Flight Level 500 project of the same time period had
a LOX system.

Matt Michael

For entertainment value...
Since Soaring Magazine refused to print the photo when it was
submitted, we need Mark Grubb to dig up and post the fantastic photo
of him (as towpilot for the day) standing in front of that G103, dead
ground squirrel in his hand (he had just run over it with a Pawnee)
while two USAF TPS pilots in pressure suits sit in the glider. A
bizarre sight. Looks like a futuristic Blackadder episode.
"Today, our in-flight meal is squirrel. Would you like it sauteed, or
fricaseed?"
It was always fun to watch the moon men come out of the Urban
Assault Vehicle, carrying porta-packs which they're hooked to until
they climb into the glider.
There's also a humorous to some, not to the pilot story from that
same project of what happens if you put those "scrunch them up and
they get warm" packets inside the boots of your space suit, which
amazingly has an atmosphere high in Oxygen. If the squirrel was in
that space suit, it would have been nicely sauteed.

Believe the DG500 "Perlan" prototype has a more modern LOX
installation. Einar would know more on that one.

Jim