Originally Posted by
lateott
Facts and speculations:
3) The plug design is spring loaded to lift itself 1.5 inch, clear its stop fittings from the frame's stop pads, swing down, and eject itself from the plane at flight speeds (facts with hyperbole)
This seems consistent with the videos explaining it, but it immediately raises the questions:
Why is the plug door, which is never meant to be opened, designed such that it can be raised out of its stop fittings, as if to open? Why is so much of the opening mechanism apparently present in this non-opening plug? Why is opening only prevented by a few bolts?
Why is the plug not fundamentally shaped so that it cannot move at all, and certainly not beyond the stop fittings, under any circumstance?