Indeed, agree completely.
I’m guessing very few members of this forum have ever seen firsthand how little holds one in? Essentially, there are a few clips to hold them in the correct spot and cabin pressure does the rest. It doesn’t take much force at all pushing the other way to eject them. The DC-9 didn’t even have the little clips BTW, the window seal alone held them in the hole, they were a bear to install correctly.
Oh yes! I remember changing an MD-80somethingorother PAX window about twenty years ago. It was a swine! I seem to remember it took two of us all night to change about three. God knows how they managed to sell so many of the things.
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How did Boeings quality have any bearing on this incident? It just happened to a Boeing standing in the way. What would worry me is what would that water pressure have done to me if I had been working on that 767?
BTW all pressurized aircrafts windows are designed to resist loads of pressure pushing them out but not as much pushing them in, so the displacement of the windows is not suprising.
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The link to the MEN will allow you to register and vent your fury aswell.
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Trying to do my bit!!!
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1098879_1m_concorde_hangar_opens#comments
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seems like Boeing planes are increasingly losing quality
Why do you say that?
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3rd one’s my fav.
Well lit, good clouds in the background. Bit of a cloud nut aswell as well as an aircraft nut!
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The BIG door in the rear fuse can’t be glossed over either!
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BEFORE YOU WERE BORN????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know how to hurt a man:(
Thanks for the coments all, I will be posting more over the months. Most of my pictures are from airshows and museums though.
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1984
Photography was strictly forbidden in and around the airfield. So if I’m deported to Norway and put in prison, you are going to have to visit me!
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Hi David
My father was an engine fitter in the RAF. He was out there from 1959 to 1962. I posted some RAF stuff over on WIX to spread them about a bit and to show our American chums something other than Mustangs!
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=27669
He says the scanner was ordered over the weekend and he will send a disc to me ASAP.
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It can often take 10 years training to work as a licensed engineer, with 25 basic exams, a four-year apprenticeship and hundreds of hours learning to work on a particular type of aircraft.
They also have to be devastatingly handsome.;)
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Glad you got some shots of it Neil. It arrived wednesday, hung around over on the 80’s stands and went flying on Friday at about 16:00hrs. I rang you to see if you were ready but you didn’t pick your mobile up! Much to my suprise it re appeared at 18:00 ish.
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You did miss the Airborne express DC-8 though!
It would have been all but invisible too, a dirty white aircraft against a dirty white sky. Thats the reason I didn’t bother taking any pictures of it.
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Aint it funny. British Airways all but pulls out of Manchester, but the first place they turn to when fortress Heathrow fouls up is Manchester.
Good shots mate, see you soon
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On the up side, at least she got two meals.
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