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TWA772LR wrote:Well the pilots are at altitude being hammered by solar and cosmic radiation. The ground crews are practically huffing (via proximity) almost every toxic chemical known to man because they're all there in a hangar, on the flight line, and mashed all together in the plane. The same thing is affecting the civilian side of aviation too. I saw this headline on my phone and wrote it off as click bait since this is just a known danger of aviation. This and the environmental reasons are why authorities are considering moving away from leaded 100LL avgas to unleaded in aviation.
I love the smell of jet fuel as much as the next avgeek but it isn't something I want to smell full time.
I'm totally not trying to down play the study or the negative effects people go through from being in aviation. If you work in, or study, the field itself, it's a widely known fact that this all happens and everyone tacitly accepts it. The article itself is just click bait.
kitplane01 wrote:TWA772LR wrote:Well the pilots are at altitude being hammered by solar and cosmic radiation. The ground crews are practically huffing (via proximity) almost every toxic chemical known to man because they're all there in a hangar, on the flight line, and mashed all together in the plane. The same thing is affecting the civilian side of aviation too. I saw this headline on my phone and wrote it off as click bait since this is just a known danger of aviation. This and the environmental reasons are why authorities are considering moving away from leaded 100LL avgas to unleaded in aviation.
I love the smell of jet fuel as much as the next avgeek but it isn't something I want to smell full time.
I'm totally not trying to down play the study or the negative effects people go through from being in aviation. If you work in, or study, the field itself, it's a widely known fact that this all happens and everyone tacitly accepts it. The article itself is just click bait.
Lots of people "know" lots of things. Sometimes getting them confirmed by science is nice. Also, having particular numbers to quantify the risk is nice. It's *not* click-bate.
kitplane01 wrote:TWA772LR wrote:Well the pilots are at altitude being hammered by solar and cosmic radiation. The ground crews are practically huffing (via proximity) almost every toxic chemical known to man because they're all there in a hangar, on the flight line, and mashed all together in the plane. The same thing is affecting the civilian side of aviation too. I saw this headline on my phone and wrote it off as click bait since this is just a known danger of aviation. This and the environmental reasons are why authorities are considering moving away from leaded 100LL avgas to unleaded in aviation.
I love the smell of jet fuel as much as the next avgeek but it isn't something I want to smell full time.
I'm totally not trying to down play the study or the negative effects people go through from being in aviation. If you work in, or study, the field itself, it's a widely known fact that this all happens and everyone tacitly accepts it. The article itself is just click bait.
Lots of people "know" lots of things. Sometimes getting them confirmed by science is nice. Also, having particular numbers to quantify the risk is nice. It's *not* click-bate.
TWA772LR wrote:kitplane01 wrote:TWA772LR wrote:Well the pilots are at altitude being hammered by solar and cosmic radiation. The ground crews are practically huffing (via proximity) almost every toxic chemical known to man because they're all there in a hangar, on the flight line, and mashed all together in the plane. The same thing is affecting the civilian side of aviation too. I saw this headline on my phone and wrote it off as click bait since this is just a known danger of aviation. This and the environmental reasons are why authorities are considering moving away from leaded 100LL avgas to unleaded in aviation.
I love the smell of jet fuel as much as the next avgeek but it isn't something I want to smell full time.
I'm totally not trying to down play the study or the negative effects people go through from being in aviation. If you work in, or study, the field itself, it's a widely known fact that this all happens and everyone tacitly accepts it. The article itself is just click bait.
Lots of people "know" lots of things. Sometimes getting them confirmed by science is nice. Also, having particular numbers to quantify the risk is nice. It's *not* click-bate.
Canadian study, 1996
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/143/2/137/77557
Norwegian study, 2000
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40967033
(Can't find national origin in a timely manner) study, 2005
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.119 ... 705th238oa
This stuff wasn't just "known" it's been studied and published for at least almost 30 years now.
SteelChair wrote:I read somewhere but can't find the source that cosmic radiation exposure in commercial airliners doubles for every 1,000 feet above FL350. And there is no shielding in the airplanes.
Nomadd wrote:SteelChair wrote:I read somewhere but can't find the source that cosmic radiation exposure in commercial airliners doubles for every 1,000 feet above FL350. And there is no shielding in the airplanes.
Read again. That's nonsense.