Posted on 09/25/2012 9:15:32 AM PDT by pabianice
In its latest edition, we get this from the nitwits at "Scientific American":
" Why Airplane Windows Don't Roll Down
"Were you to open a plane window, the compressed air inside would rapidly rush out, atmospheric conditions inside and outside the plane would equalize, and everybody would die."
I don't know what grammer school kid wrote this for Scientific American, but after I stopped laughing, I had to call it.
"At 35,000 ft. (11,000 m), the typical altitude of a commercial jet, the air pressure drops to less than a quarter of its value at sea level, and the outside temperature drops below negative 60 degrees Fahrenheit (negative 51 degrees Celsius), according to The Engineering Toolbox. Exposed to such conditions, you would quickly die.".
Short answer: NO. For those of us who actually know something about aviation and who may have gone through military flight training, when you lose atmospheric compression, everyone has an enormous fart, your ears hurt, your pen lets lose in your flight suit pocket, there is an instantaneous fogging of the cabin, and it does get very loud and cold but you have time to grab your O2 mask or close the hatch and re-ressurize. You do NOT explode like in a bad sci fi movie, or get sucked out into space like Goldfinger. You do NOT instantly die. You DO have about 25 seconds to put on your mask or make other arrangements. You die only if you work for "Scientific American."
Nitwits.
In Germany in the early 1930’s, doctors, lawyers, and “scientists” were the most dangerous Nazis.
Just sayin’ ...
Is SA trying to tell me that the guy would have died if he had tried that?
Correct. Nor do we need to open the windows for air before we are on the ground.
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