Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
by coredog64 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @07:25AM
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My wife surely wouldn’t. The upper deck lav leaked on our heads for half the flight from Sydney to LA. What’s worse than a 16 hour flight? A 16 hour flight where you have to stand in the aisles.
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Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
by FabHK on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:23AM
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I've frequently seen condensed water from the air conditioner leak in an A380 (sometimes quite voluminously during take-off), are you positive it was the lavatory?
(FWIW, I think the A380 has superb pax comfort.)
Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
by crististm on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:46AM
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So it's ok to have water dripping on your head as long as it's vapour condensation?
Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
by magashna on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:02AM
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Certainly better than hot piss.
Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
by martin_a on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:29AM
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Is that what happens on the lower decks? :-)
Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
by zentiggr on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:49AM
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Just rename it steerage, and you're resurrecting fine old nautical tradition.
Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
by rorykoehler on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:12AM
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I generally spend most long haul flights standing in the aisle. It's much better for your back and butt.
Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
by sandworm101 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @06:15PM
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Good luck when the turbulence comes. I've seen people suddenly up against the ceiling. It is rare, but extreme turbulence sometimes happens very suddenly.
Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
by torgian on Friday November 08, 2019 @03:21AM
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I remember this on a flight to an airbase in Catania, Sicily. Overnight flight, we were given drinks, then turbulence hit with the hand of Thor.
I'm pretty sure we dropped about 500 feet straight down, but all I remember was being amazed how my cup of pepsi stayed on my tray and didn't fall over.
Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
by sandworm101 on Saturday November 09, 2019 @01:08PM
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If the pepsi was still in your cup, you were still at some degree of positive "g". Anything below about 0.5 will cause people to start screaming. True falling is 0g. But things suddenly get very bad at even the slightest negative g. At -0.1g your pepsi is levitating out of the cup, the 100lb drink cart is now airborne, and a second later it all comes crashing down.
Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
by torgian on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:41AM
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I remember having some sort of feeling "negative-g" at that time (and plenty of people were screaming!) but we probably did have some amount of positive G. Probably not much though.
Re:Boeing whistleblower raises doubts over 787 oxygen system
by rorykoehler on Thursday November 07, 2019 @07:19AM
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It has crossed my mind on occasion.never been in truly violent turbulence yet but generally wary when flying over the Indian Ocean. Can be quite rough.