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[Chris Byrne]

Seen footage? Hell I've seen it done live. I went to Embry Riddle
Aeronautical University where the FAA's chief avaiation safety lab is and
some really cool test to destruct and materials science labs are. My
academic advisor was Dr. Richard Felton, who was until recently the FAA's
chief aviation safety scientist.

We used to regularly turn engine bits into shrapnel, or even fine powder. It
was fun. You oughta see what happens when you fire a turkey into a jet
engine at 600 miles an hour.

Look a guy with a screwdriver can, from the INSIDE of the place while it's
flying expose a portion of the aircrafts skin and plunge said screwdriver
through it without much difficulty. Doing so would cause... absolutely
nothing. The largest possible skin tear to occur from a single puncture
would be a few inches. Explosive decompression takes a lot more than that.

Even in the event of explosive decompression you would have between four and
12 minutes to descend below 12,500 (preferably below 10,000) feet to avoid
death by hypoxic hypoxia. A modern jet airliner can safely descend (not
comfortably, but safely) at around 5 miles per minute. Hell you can
comfortably descend at 5,000 feet per minute. Common cruising altitudes are
between 25 and 40 thousand feet meaning at most you have to drop 30k feet,
which can easily be done in a minute or at most two in the case of an
emergency.

There are three reasons I dont particularly car to fly on the airlines.

1. It's a pain in the ass. Both literally and figurateively.
2. THey recycle the air up there so much that it tends to give me sinus
infections
3. I'm a pilot. I know other pilots. I'd much rather be in control than them

That last one is why I can never sleep on airplanes no matter how tired I am

Chris Byrne

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> I've seen footage of it.
>
> alex
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