Although no insight is offered as to what the problem may have been, apparently a full-court press by the folks at Edwards has gotten the F-35 fleet back into the air. The fact is that until every plane is equipped with automatic ground collision avoidance and unmonitored autoland capability, the oxygen system has to be just about as reliable as the main wing spar. There is no way that an OBOGS will ever be as simple as a tank of LOX and some hoses, but if you make it redundant, then the system footprint (weight, power, volume...) becomes a problem. Choices, choices...
http://www.edwards.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123273870
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