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From: mgflax@phoenix.princeton.edu (Marshall G. Flax)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Exit Row Survey
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Date: 27 Jun 91 20:14:46 GMT
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Index Number: 16466

In article <16291@handicap.news> Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org writes:
]Index Number: 16291
]
]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.
]

Fires are HOT!  Fires are LOUD!  I don't think that there would be any
problem feeling the heat or hearing the fire.  I think that, unless
you, yourself, have been on the inside of a burning airplane, we should
find people who have and ask them, rather than playing this imagining
game amongst ourselves.

marshall
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