Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. How does turning a small plane by opening the doors work? Ask Question. Asked 5 years ago. Active 3 years, 4 months ago.
Viewed 1k times. Improve this question. Pondlife Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. The better explanation would say that the door acts like a spoiler, and those are used routinely for roll control: in airliners in unmanned vehicles.
Improve this answer. Carlo Felicione Carlo Felicione I suspect it may be both what you said and what Tyler Durden said combined I believe as KorvinStarmast has pointed out below, the door works as a spoiler. It creates form drag by separating the flow. Tyler Durden Tyler Durden Flaps deflect air downwards; doors deflect air sideways. Why does greater surface area on one side cause the other side to drop?
The doors remained sealed. In , a passenger gave it a go on a Hainan Airlines flight to Mongolia, this time as the plane was preparing to land. In June, Air Europa flight UX89 was forced to turn back after a passenger tried to pull open the emergency exit. And just last month, holidaymaker Chloe Haines appeared in magistrates court on charges of attacking two stewards who tried to stop her from doing the same.
The unifying detail of all of these stories is that the passengers were flagrantly drunk. There are two lines of defence at play here. The first is, as you might expect, that the doors are mechanically locked.
These locks are controlled by the pilot. That's why planes are pressurized to mimic conditions about 8, feet above sea level. Modern airlines fly at about 36, feet above sea level. If they weren't pressurized, it would cause delirium in seconds and knock you out in under a minute. And the difference between the inside of the plane and the outside can be huge. Which is exactly where the doors come in.
Inside the cabin, 8 pounds of pressure push against every square inch of surface area. So we're looking at more than 24, pounds of pressure bearing down on that exit. The strongest man alive can deadlift only 1, pounds. The pressure would be lower! Narrator: The pressure would be lower, but still too much for a person to overcome, even William Shatner.
And the door flying out into the inky black? Practically impossible on a modern plane. Most passenger doors are tapered, the inner edge being wider than the outer. It's called a plug door, and it basically acts like a bathtub-drain stopper, corking the hole without falling through. But what if someone on your plane had Shatner's superhuman strength?
It could cause something called "explosive decompression. During an Aloha Airlines flight in , a piece of the fuselage tore loose at 24, feet, leaving "blue sky where the first-class ceiling had been," according to the captain.
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