What followed can only be described as an odd response from Mitt:
"When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous."Yes Mitt, I wonder why they don't put operable windows on jets? Okay, maybe I do have to explain why we don't have operable windows on jets:
- An operable window in a jet would depressurize the plane, making it difficult to breathe;
- It tends to want to suck people (and anything else) out of the window because the air velocity outside is much higher than inside;
- You might as well forget about any smoke, because everything will by flying around, hitting you;
- Fires need oxygen, and increasing air flow will only encourage the fire to grow;
- There is oxygen -- those drop down masks, as required in pressurized aircraft.
I'm a bit shocked right now. I think I'm starting to understand now, why Mitt has no regrets over strapping the dog onto the roof of the station wagon -- he simply doesn't know much about physics and science.
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