To: oxcart
It isn't. When the plane is at cruising altitude, it's pressurized. That pressure means that getting a door open would require superhuman strength. While that might be true, it's a sorry,sorry explanation.
The pressure is on the INSIDE, pushing OUT. It's not a far stretch to think that the pressure would HELP you open the door, not hinder you.
To explain it by saying that "it's pressurized" shows a complete lack of understanding of the problem.
3 posted on
09/26/2013 12:07:17 PM PDT by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
Do the doors open ‘IN’ or ‘OUT’?.....
7 posted on
09/26/2013 12:09:02 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: EveningStar
12 posted on
09/26/2013 12:11:51 PM PDT by
oxcart
(Journalism [sic])
To: Izzy Dunne
Airplane doors are designed such that they have to be pulled inwards (into the cabin), then rotated, and then pushed out the hatch.
The article is correct.
13 posted on
09/26/2013 12:12:11 PM PDT by
kidd
(No blood for ego)
To: Izzy Dunne
It's not a far stretch to think that the pressure would HELP you open the door, not hinder you. Assuming you don't notice that airplane doors are designed to open inward then rotate to the outside. You would have to overcome the pressure to open the door inward before you could push it to the outside.
18 posted on
09/26/2013 12:14:14 PM PDT by
6ppc
(It's torch and pitchfork time)
To: Izzy Dunne
They didn’t mention that the door is actually on the inside of the frame pushing out. You have to pull the door in first and then it swings on a special hinge.
23 posted on
09/26/2013 12:16:19 PM PDT by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: Izzy Dunne
You do not understand the operation of doors on airplanes. When you do learn how they work, you will stop accusing one of making a “sorry, sorry explanation”! Just ask yourself a simple question...would the manufacturer make a product/door that could be opened in flight? There is only answer.
41 posted on
09/26/2013 12:25:58 PM PDT by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: Izzy Dunne
56 posted on
09/26/2013 12:33:29 PM PDT by
raybbr
(I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
To: Izzy Dunne
The door opens inwards. You’re pulling it in against the pressure. At altitude you’ve got a thousand or more pounds pushing it closed.
62 posted on
09/26/2013 12:36:27 PM PDT by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
To: Izzy Dunne
Um, nope, that is correct. They just left out the part that airplane doors have to open IN before they can opened OUT. And this is why they are built that way: no small structural failure (or nut job) can open them in flight because you cannot do that requires “in” part with (internal) pressurization unless the plane is pretty much shredded already.
72 posted on
09/26/2013 12:41:52 PM PDT by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: Izzy Dunne
The pressure is on the INSIDE, pushing OUT. It's not a far stretch to think that the pressure would HELP you open the door, not hinder you.Not so. Because the aircraft doors have to be pulled IN before they swing out and to the side. They are not hinged like a normal door. Yes they open OUT but not before they open inward.
76 posted on
09/26/2013 12:44:00 PM PDT by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(So Obama "inherited" a mess? Firemen "inherit" messes too. Ever see one put gasoline on it?)
To: Izzy Dunne
Sorry didn’t mean to pile on. Hadn’t read all the comments.
78 posted on
09/26/2013 12:44:57 PM PDT by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: Izzy Dunne
“The pressure is on the INSIDE, pushing OUT. It’s not a far stretch to think that the pressure would HELP you open the door, not hinder you”
Perhaps. . .but the doors open inward therefore you are fighting pressurization forcing the door closed, so, in fact, opening a door inflight at altitude would require super human strength.
112 posted on
09/26/2013 1:12:58 PM PDT by
Hulka
To: Izzy Dunne
137 posted on
09/26/2013 1:35:02 PM PDT by
Hulka
To: Izzy Dunne
The doors open in, not out. Pressurization works to keep the door closed.
167 posted on
09/26/2013 4:11:40 PM PDT by
Taxman
(So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
To: Izzy Dunne
To explain it by saying that "it's pressurized" shows a complete lack of understanding of the problem.I understood the post. Your explanation makes no sense at all.
174 posted on
09/26/2013 5:13:07 PM PDT by
SandwicheGuy
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