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A friend of mine used to work on US Airforce C-5 Galaxies - the second largest aircraft in the world. When hunting for pressurization leaks in the cavernous ai
by danielvf 8y ago
A friend of mine used to work on US Airforce C-5 Galaxies - the second largest aircraft in the world.
When hunting for pressurization leaks in the cavernous aircraft, they would throw toilet paper rolls into the air, and look for the direction that the streaming toilet paper was sucked.
Once they threw a toilet paper roll, and it was sucked out of the aircraft so quickly that they didn't spot the "leak" location. So they got a blanket, throw that up, and it was gone too...
- dogma1138 8y agoWas that leak an open cargo door? It doesn’t seems likely that the aircraft would be able to keep the cabin pressurized if there is a “leak” large enough to suck out a blanket.
- danielvf 8y agoTesting was conducted on the ground, engines near full power, shoving air into the cargo compartment via bleed air. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_air https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleed_air In this particular case, the "leak" was somewhere in the roof of the aircraft. My friend was laughing about how confused everyone else on the base would have been by seeing a blanket shooting out of the top of the Galaxy.