"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."Riight. Because it makes so much sense to be able to open all of the windows on an airliner that has a pressure differential of over 8 psi and is cruising at about 550 MPH. What ever could go wrong with that?
As far as I know, the only aircraft in passenger service that had openable windows for the passengers were the dirigibles.
Romney ought to confine his remarks to the things he knows best: Having offshore bank accounts, hiding his tax returns, closing American factories and raping companies.
Ah yes, "back to the days of yesteryear ...."
ReplyDeletethe stoopid just keeps on giving..
Holy Explosive Decompression
ReplyDeleteRemind me of the famous Twilight Zone Episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Ft", where the character being played by William Shatner opens the "Auxiliary Exit" and tries to kill the Gremlin with a weapon he has taken from a sleeping police officer on the flight without being sucked out of the aircraft.
Just a heads up to those Secret Service agents assigned to protect Mittens, do not fall a sleep on the flight, you never know what next.
This makes me think that General Dynamics (or whoever is making drones now,) is thinking about billing the government for windows, cup holders, and comfy chairs in their next drones.
ReplyDeleteI think maybe he was flashing on Grandpa Simpson's rambling reminisces: "You see, back in those days, rich men would ride around in Zeppelins, dropping coins on people, and one day I seen J.D. Rockefeller flying by. So I run of the house with a big washtub and... hey! Where are you going?"
ReplyDeleteLeave it to the Brits. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/5366628/BA-A-History-in-Pictures.html?image=1
ReplyDeleteMaybe now Willard will take back all of those unflattering comments he made while at the Olympics.
Ford Trimotor had a double pane window, squeeze the catches on either side of the bottom pane and you could lift the window high enough a 10 year old kid (me) could get his head out and have a look. At least the one I flew on at the Rockford, Ill. airshow did. Also there were two side windows in the cockpit that opened.
ReplyDeleteBut a Trimotor, in the `20s, was about as fast as a high-speed passenger train.
Delete(And you can't open the windows on a railroad passenger car that was made since the 1940s.)
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DeleteAccording to Snopes, and my own viewing of what he said, he was trying to be funny. It may not have worked, but I don't believe he was serious.
ReplyDeleteIt is bad enough when the conservatives take things out of context ("invented the Internet", etc.) and twist it around, but the liberals don't do themselves any good by doing the same thing. It is just as disgusting.
I am not sure he was joking, but let's move past that for a moment.
DeleteYou seem to be arguing that liberals should just let conservatives fight dirty because it is better to lose honorably than win by punching below the belt. Well, there is a word for people who play fair while the other side fights dirty: Losers. Politics isn't a referee sport. Republicans have stolen two Federal elections in the last twelve years. They are actively trying to steal this one by suppressing the votes of the elderly, the young, poor people and minorities.
Playing fair against Republicans is for squeamish pie-in-the-sky dreamers who would rather lose than get their hands dirty.
If "humor" was the attempt, Willard failed yet again. At least he's consistent in this regard, This guy wouldn't know humor if it was an ice cream bar.
DeleteMy thought is Willard was just trying to "relate" to the common man "yea, you can't open the windows" was just a sad ploy to 'relate' to poor people that fly, like the Titanic where the poor weren't even allowed to the top deck to evacuate.
ReplyDeleteIn the end it was just another Fail.
Time for Willard 4.0, and a greater stench of Fail!
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Not to mention the quite frigid outside air temperature and relative lack of oxygen at average jet cruising altitudes, and even if the latter was present, more oxygen would just add fuel to the fire...
ReplyDeleteThen again, far too many of the people sadly would probably make the same observation as he did...