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Old January 15th 04, 12:24 AM
David CL Francis
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 at 09:37:56 in message
, Bill Denton
wrote:

I'm not an engineer so please forgive me if this next is in the "duuuhh"
category. Assuming a breach the size of a window in an aircraft in flight,
would not some type of "siphon" (or whatever) effect occur from the movement
of air across the fuselage, which would further remove air/people/etc from
inside the fuselage?


See my other post: the air going past creates a negligible pressure
compared to the cabin differential pressure at 35,000 ft..
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David CL Francis