"This is your pilot speaking, could the passenger in Row 3D please roll up his or her window? We're detecting a cabin depressurization and under FAA regulations will need to perform an emergency descent to 8,000 feet so that you may continue to live."
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Brian Sullivan
September 26, 2012 at 4:36 pm
Yeah but Goldfinger is just a movie. We are talking about real life.
nick kaiho
September 26, 2012 at 6:34 pm
oh my
Ken Foreman
September 26, 2012 at 7:24 pm
If elected President, he'll have authority over the Federal Aviation Administration. I don't think he understands the concepts of Hypoxia and Barotrauma, both of which would be killing passengers if opening windows at a cruising altitude of 30,000 feet (10,000 feet taller than Everest).
I knew about the need for cabin pressurization because I read about Chuck Yeager and the history of aviation. I'd recommend the Wikipedia page if Romney doesn't feel like heavy reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pressurization#Need_for_cabin_pressurization
Zephyr López Cervilla
September 27, 2012 at 7:01 am
Certainly, there are some technical reasons that explain why airplane windows for passengers can't roll down (some cockpit windows can be opened in airliners such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-10, or a vent in the case of the Boeing 747), but none of them are related to what has been suggested in recent posts (as far as I know). The argument of sudden depressurization fails for its own weight. If it was this of great concern the doors of the cabin couldn't be opened either, specially during flight, but on the contrary, the cabin doors do open.
For some reason many people have assumed that the possibility to open the cabin windows would mean their practicability by any passenger at any time and under any conditions, but this hasn't to be necessarily the case. There are technical solutions to prevent passengers from opening the windows when this weren't advisable. Likewise, in certain situations the passengers are instructed on how to open the doors even though they usually aren't allowed to do so.
Further reading:
read my post:
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Ken Foreman
September 27, 2012 at 7:32 am
Truly, we live in the age of miracles! We live in an age where there is an aeronautical engineer on every street corner, where there is a medical expert in every household, where there is a network engineer and a traffic engineer and an economic expert in every residence just waiting to brim forth with knowledge, expertise, and making the world a better place.
I would like to run a traffic light because it's an imposition to my getting to work. I do not understand why traffic lights are coordinated the way they are in northern Virginia, but I am not so much an expert to say that I could do a better job than an educated and experienced traffic engineer.
I've read a handful of books on the history of aeronautics. I was enlisted in the US Air Force and took classes on avionics, but I would not pretend to say I'm going to roll down the window on a 500-passenger aircraft at 30,000 feet and an air pressure of 4.36 PSI. Perhaps your lungs inflate and you can breathe at such altitudes, but I was born a mere human.