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Old January 14th 04, 08:34 AM
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"Bill Denton" wrote

.. Try this experiment: Drive down the road in
your car at highway speed, with all of the windows closed except the
driver's. Then take an ordinary tissue and release it about a foot away

from
the window. Voila, it will be "sucked" out of the window.



Different than an airliner fuselage. There is slightly higher pressure in
font of the windshield, and low pressure slightly behind the windshield,
where the window is. A cylindrical fuselage has few changes such as that,
has few pressure changes along its length.
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Jim in NC