GravityHater
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GravityHater said:I have always wondered what the approximate cross sectional area of a fully opened outflow valve is, say on a typical airliner. Are we talking several square inches? Just wanted to get a feel for how much air or air flow would be experienced.
Flyinisforbirds said:Interesting. My Texas Instruments TI-86 does the conversion wrong. If you have a TI calculator try doing the conversion from -60 C and it might give you -140 (at least mine does). Maybe the NY times writer did the conversion on a calculator with a conversion feature that was messed up (like I did). Hopefully Texas Instruments was not involved in the development of the A380 =). But, I do find it ironic he was writing an article about faulty software in a microchip and using a calculator with such a fault itself.
Right, which is 108 degrees "below freezing", but that still isn't 140 degrees below freezingEagleRJ said:+60C = +140F
However, -60C = -76F