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From: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro)
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Subject: Re: Exit Row Survey
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Date: 20 Jun 91 20:09:54 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 >
 > Walter; it sounds like you're singing the tunes the
 > airlines want to hear.  If the wing of an airplane is
 > burning, and I am near it, I will hear fire and smell
 > smoke.  Hence, it would be utterly foolish for me to use
 > that exit.  Most likely, other people, blind or sighted,
 > will have that same idea, and will not be trying to get out
 > of my exit, Beth.

Beth,

     You're gonna love my harmonizing with Uncle Walt on this
one.  Now, I probably haven't flown as much as you, but, I do
seem to remember not being able to smell or hear much from the
outside.  That means to me that those doors make a pretty tight
seal, for which we can all be grateful else there wouldn't be any
way to pressurize that cabin.  If you cannot here the wind
rushing outside the plane, how you gonna hear that crackling
fire?  Open the exit?  Yes, and create the lovely potential for a
crossdraft.  It's much more important to me that I be wise than
that someone else Think me wise.  But, that's my inner vs. outer
independence, again.

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