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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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To: xone

This is why I’m thinking if your window blew out it might just suck you right up and out of your lap belt.


607 posted on 04/19/2018 1:40:50 PM PDT by ichabod1 (If there is to be war, let it begin here.)
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To: xone

“Blow” is a hard term to grip when a human body is “sucked” half way out a small window. At least to lay people and eye witnesses.

I hear you, but this car analysis is just not dynamically comparable to what happens with a fuselage, at 500 mph at 30,000 feet. It’s just not.

I believe that’s why they are not using the word “blow”. No one is saying she “blew half way out”. You know what I’m trying to say?


616 posted on 04/19/2018 1:43:02 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Ed/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming, infinitum.)
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To: xone
Re:"When explosive decompression occurs, air in the inside goes out ..."

How true - how true, and that includes what's inside of you.

I experienced such an explosion when leveling at 35,000 feet one day - and , as a result, I learned one thing.

Never, never, never drink a coke just before takeoff.

925 posted on 04/19/2018 4:28:57 PM PDT by Cribb
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