[Flyer Content Team]

Hypoxia is an insidious killer - so we volunteered Keir Williams to be our guinea pig and find out what it's like.

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[PeteSpencer]

As CCF RAF cadets as part of our 'training' in early 1960s we were subjected to hypoxia age 16-18 in a chamber at RAF Oakington.

We were shoved in four at a time with an accompanying RAF medico who supervised taking us down then one by one got us to remove our masks and write a nursery rhyme or some such on a note pad.

Weird sensation rapidly talking gibberish before starting to pass out. Medic promptly shoved oxygen mask back on.

I had a headache for 24 hours afterwards.

I was given a 'certificate of hypoxic something or other' which I was told would allow me to fly in an RAF jet on our field days.

Never happened.

All this without parental consent: would never be allowed nowadays.

[PaulSS]

Done it a few time with the rapid decompression from 10000' to 35000' cabin altitude and then hypoxia training afterwards at 35000' (all in the chamber, of course).

I really quite liked hypoxia and that would be my choice of death.......in the right circumstances. Feel drunk, talk bollox, get tingly, fall asleep....stay asleep.