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ZAGORFLY
21st Dec 2014, 15:43
Can Anyone help with drawings of the doors?
there is a mechanical locking system that prevents the opening in flight?
thank you
Muzzey
21st Dec 2014, 16:06
Best not to ask questions like this, why would anyone NEED to know?
there is a mechanical locking system that prevents the opening in flight - I believe the main doors are standard 'plug' doors. Check wiki/Google
Manual Reversion
21st Dec 2014, 17:29
Upper deck doors as I recall are locked...or at least the opening lever is. Lower deck plug type. (There is a weird and wonderful procedure for smoke removal that involves opening them in flight)
TOWTEAMBASE
21st Dec 2014, 18:05
Too much info !!!!
Simplythebeast
21st Dec 2014, 18:53
Why the interest in door mechanisms? You were asking similar questions about 777 door mechanism some time back?
Some time back indeed. If you are worried about ZF being a closet terrorist I must observe that he is taking his time as he has been with us on PPrune for over 12 years. A true 'sleeper'?
Simplythebeast
21st Dec 2014, 20:02
Six years since his query about 777 doors......he's slept in! No, just interested in his interest in door mechanisms.
peekay4
21st Dec 2014, 20:52
From October:
http://www.pprune.org/questions/550331-smoke-evacuation.html
I guess some are just fascinated with doors.
Arfur Dent
22nd Dec 2014, 04:48
ZF may not be a sleeper but I doubt the wisdom of posting all this here and now. ISIL are quite sophisticated and shouldn't be spoon fed by Jammed Stab who should erase his 2 posts IMHO. Be careful - the only people who need to understand that stuff are qualified 747-400 aircrew - not the general public.:=
JammedStab
22nd Dec 2014, 05:14
While I doubt the posted info is of any use to the bad guys, to make the previous poster more comfortable, I will delete it. Too bad. It is mostly stuff not in the manuals.
Arfur Dent
22nd Dec 2014, 08:12
Thanks JS. You wrote some interesting info that I'd never seen before so maybe it could be distributed through the Fleet Office.
ZAGORFLY
23rd Dec 2014, 04:03
I m sorry to have generated such much suspicious !!!!!!
Let me re frase the question
Above which speed the mechanical interlock door Bar ( if any) automatically is inserted to prevent the total opening of the door in flight if necessary to evacuate the smoke if any ?
I read it somewhere 20 kts or I may have fabricate it into my ram memory....thank you BOAC for observing the facts..I appreciated and peacefully go back to sleep.
ZAGORFLY
23rd Dec 2014, 14:03
forget about this.
this curiosity it is irrelevant
Simplythebeast
23rd Dec 2014, 14:11
Sleep well.
How does it go?
"Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they are NOT out to get you"
Above which speed the mechanical interlock door Bar ( if any) automatically is inserted to prevent the total opening of the door in flight if necessary to evacuate the smoke if any ?
I read it somewhere 20 kts or I may have fabricate it into my ram memory.
It sounds like one of the wrong answers to a multiple choice exam :}
torghabe
27th Dec 2014, 06:20
AMM forever, gents!