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To: ROCKLOBSTER; 100American

Yes, you’re right. I already remarked to *100 that plane windows are acrylic, yesterday.

I don’t really *get” why, with that phenomenal amount of suction force to pull a human body out a window, that it isn’t suppose to be enough to first suck out a little acrylic pane out, in its entirety. Oh, well.... whatever.


518 posted on 04/19/2018 12:11:42 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Ed/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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To: RitaOK
that it isn’t suppose to be enough to first suck out a little acrylic pane out, in its entirety.

Not as much a suck as a blow. The airplane is pressurized to a lower altitude than its flight. When explosive decompression occurs, air in the inside goes out, things not secured go with it. The relative wind outside is similar to sticking your hand out the car window if your car was doing 500kts.

579 posted on 04/19/2018 1:17:39 PM PDT by xone
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