• RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yup - gaseous oxygen isn’t very dense so you’d need pretty large tanks, and liquid oxygen needs high pressure and very low temperatures to stay liquid - neither of which is terribly practical for an aircraft, and especially for safety systems that need to be super reliable without lots of maintenance