From Newsgroup: uk.rec.sheds
Jim the Geordie wrote:
I cannot stay quiet any longer!
I sincerely hope that none of the many journalists who reported on that recent aircraft incident were in one of my physics lessons!
Supposedly the difference between cabin pressure and outside pressure at 16,000 feet was 4 psi, multiply that by a window area of 100 sq inches,
you've got a 400 lb force ... I would have other things on my mind
rather than wondering if I'm being blown out of the aircraft, or sucked
into they sky ...
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