OT Don't read this (was Re: Altair MBL source)

John Foust jfoust at threedee.com
Wed May 4 08:43:15 CDT 2005


At 08:13 AM 5/4/2005, Paul Koning wrote:
>Unpressurized planes (small planes) simply have the ambient air
>inside.  Pressurized planes (airliners) compress the outside air
>roughly to the pressure that prevails around 8000 feet or so.  It's
>still plain old air, 21 percent oxygen.

They control the humidity, though, to save weight.

- John



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