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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
I don't know what you mean by "structural pressue hatch".

Sounds like a submarine term, which airplanes ain't.

Done some of the things you listed, not others.

If I gave a damn about this time-killer, I'd give you websites of freighter conversions that included sealing some doors and cutting new cargo doors. Find 'em yourself.

234 posted on 05/21/2002 11:59:05 AM PDT by KirklandJunction
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To: KirklandJunction
The aircraft IS pressurized (to continuos bleed fromthe engine compressors) to 9,000 - 10,000 feet equivilent air pressure) while flying at an amospheric pressure of 35,000 (some-odd) feet elevation.

Yes - the hatch resembles a submarine hatch ---- as do the baggage compartment hatches and wing escape doors. (Actually, they are a bit more expensive and elaborate than a submarine hatch ... though withstanding less pressure differential pressure. The hatch reinforced frames, and the hatch itself, carry the structural loads of the aircraft as it flexs and moves during flight. (Witness the several jets that have crashed when the baggage hatches fail during flight....)

The cabin IS pressurized continuously to replace the tens of thousands of cubic feet of air that naturally bleed out during flight through the compensation valves, the cabin and baggage compartment, and the atmospheric vents ... ONE more little hole form a mythical bullet doesn't compare to the existing 2 square foot hole ALREADY there in these systems.

254 posted on 05/21/2002 1:25:46 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
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