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To: iowamark

I am trying to recall the size of an airplane window. I don’t think I’d fit through one?


19 posted on 04/17/2018 10:35:54 AM PDT by pnz1 (#IMNOTWITHHER)
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To: pnz1

Trust me, no matter how big you are, you’d fit.

Aircraft cabin are pressurized to the equivalent of 6,000 to 8,000 feet, about 11 psia. At 35,000 feet, the exterior pressure is 3.5 psia.So you ave about 7.5 pounds of differential pressure on every square inch. If the window is 1 square foot in area, you have about 1,000 pounds of force pushing you out through that tiny opening. Can you say “squish”?


46 posted on 04/17/2018 12:04:46 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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