Some years ago, The Wall Street Journal asked its readers for their most memorable stories of international travel. One businessman aboard a rickety African turboprop wrote of being asked by a stewardess after takeoff to firmly hold onto the handle of the aircraft’s exterior hatch for the rest of the flight.
Turns out he was just being an obnoxious dick and she wanted him to shut up and stay in one place.
(I don’t know if that’s actually true)
Me, either. I hardly think he’d mention it if it were!
Since Chronos got the ball rolling, I’ll post my favorite Far Side aviation cartoon: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_m8z0LDxt1qY/TSiHknX460I/AAAAAAAABRw/X6JBwWZiWSU/s1600/far_side_mountain_goat.jpg
The new version of the Archive isn’t searchable anymore, but I recall that Cecil has covered this, and even doors that seem to open normally have to "pop-out"by moving to the side or something to that effect before actually opening; if memory serves, you’d need to be able to generate at least a ton of force, probably more at 30K feet.
It is, not on the Archives page itself (dumb move) but on the SD homepage below Slug’s cartoon du jour and the “Related Columns” and “Related Threads” entries.