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DEBUNKED: 10 Airplane Myths That People Still Believe
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| 09/24/13
| Alex Davies
Posted on 09/26/2013 12:03:19 PM PDT by oxcart
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Comment #61 Removed by Moderator
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.
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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: Moonman62
Point is that landings and takeoffs usually entail vectors of travel that are oblique to the ground, not a perpendicular impact against which there is little or no opportunity to recover.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:37:09 PM PDT
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: JRandomFreeper
#3 is true, but only because the stews can bring the drinks faster.You're showing our age, pal. I still call 'em that, too, but Stews have been "flight attendants" for at least twenty years!
64
posted on
09/26/2013 12:37:35 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: KarlInOhio
They turn the heat up and the lights down, that socks many into sleep or at least torpor.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:37:43 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: raybbr
The doors open IN. So, why couldn't they say that?
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:38:05 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Izzy Dunne
Haven’t you ever flown on a plane?
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:39:36 PM PDT
by
raybbr
(I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
To: qam1
11. Flying is safer than driving No, that's not a myth.
Your chances of a fatal accident in a plane is about 1 in 5 million flights.
The risk of a fatal automobile accident is about 1.5 every 100 million miles.
The calculations for a typical Boston to DC trip are shown here:
Transportation safety in the United States
Your drive to the airport is riskier than the flight, if it is more than about 20 miles.
Combine a 20 mile drive to the Boston airport, the flight to DC, and a 20 mile drive from the DC airport, and the risk of driving the entire 450 miles is about 8 times greater than flying.
And still, most of the risk of "flying" is driving to/from the airport.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:39:58 PM PDT
by
justlurking
(tagline removed, as demanded by Admin Moderator)
To: MeganC
It might not make the plane crash but it sure will make it land faster! And it will cause you to get beat all to hell by the passengers...................
69
posted on
09/26/2013 12:40:23 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:40:58 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
To: Izzy Dunne
Your second sentence stating that the pressure would help one to open the door leads me to believe that you do not know how the doors operate. I have almost 21,000 hours logged, almost all in pressurized airliners. I do know how the doors operate.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:41:41 PM PDT
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:41:52 PM PDT
by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: Red Badger
Both. They have to be pulled IN before they will swivel out.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:42:42 PM PDT
by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: MNDude
12. An airplane hit the pentagon.Everybody knows it was a cruise missile that hit the Pentagon, and that the passengers from that supposed terror flight were killed by Bush's CIA if they refused to take the witness protection plan with the new name and fake background, so we could go and take all of Iraq's oil... < /sarc >
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:42:48 PM PDT
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: FreedomNotSafety
Even at a minimal pressure differential of say, 3 psi, there are thousands of pounds of resistance that would need to be overcome. A 2 1/2 by 5 foot door has 1800 square inches of surface area. At 3 psi, that’s 5400 pounds to overcome. The doors are a bit bigger than that and I’m fairly sure that the pressure differential is higher than the numbers I’ve used.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:43:32 PM PDT
by
Bob
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.
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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: oxcart
My favorite has always been, Airplanes fly at night by staying in between those white, green and red lights.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:44:22 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(The time for impeachment has come.)
To: Izzy Dunne
Sorry didn’t mean to pile on. Hadn’t read all the comments.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:44:57 PM PDT
by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: knarf
LOVE those in air "drops" (don't know what you call them ... but your gizzard slides up into your brain) It's called "Flying out of John Wayne Int'l Airport in Santa Ana California".
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:46:05 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(So Obama "inherited" a mess? Firemen "inherit" messes too. Ever see one put gasoline on it?)
To: JRandomFreeper
#3 is true, but only because the stews can bring the drinks faster.
Just don't call them "Waitress". They don't like that.
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posted on
09/26/2013 12:46:06 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(Still crazy after all these beers.)
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