Is that not a magnet too? Our LED wall tiles come out with a magnet, it's just attached to a piece that looks like a suction cup so the magnet part doesn't smoosh the pixels directly.
Hmm it might vary based on tile, like the ones I've seen are for the durable floor modules that have a glass cover, so maybe suction works better for those
Oh yeah something with a slick surface definitely makes sense to be an actual suction cup and not just shaped like one. All our panels hang perpendicular to the ground and don't have anybody standing on them. :)
My heart would have skipped essentially a couple beats because it fundamentally just is a piece of glass with a couple scratches so people don't actually with the cover all of the time
"Let us move our HQ away from the factory so that our executives efforts to raise the stock price via hype is not distracted by issues in the actual manufacturing of the planes."
Also I'm pretty sure the tool to remove one of those is a suction-cup on a handle too. I've seen this piece removed before on a cutout of a airplane fuselage.
i've never thought about this before but if i were to guess that inside pane has 0 structural support to it and is there solely to stop people fucking with the actual glass. i'd assume it's that easy to remove with a suction tool for the sake of cleaning.
Maybe you would like to explain why unlike OP? It needs to be cleaned and occasionally replaced, it should be easy to access. And you literally need a suction device to get it out, it's not like you can just grab it.
Please explain how that could've endangered everyone on the play when it's literally just a cosmetic cover designed to keeps hands off the actual glass for smudges.
It comes off with a suction cup tool for maintence. That's what the toy was.
Did you just find some random source and hope it agreed with you, without actually reading it? I'm genuinely curious on your thought process before posting this.
And it failed. Now imagine how many tens of thousands of other components are on the verge of failing like that protective cover and enjoy your flight. ✈️
So you’re saying there are two diametrically opposed possibilities?
a) it’s not supposed to come off. Hence not designed to withstand a suction cup or…
b) it is designed to come off very easily. By a baby.
I’m sure it’s a scratch pane and that it’s meant to be removable. But there’s no way a scratch pane is meant to be pulled off by a passenger let along a baby.
A scratch pane is meant to keep the passenger away from the actual glass
a) not designed to withstand a suction cup pulling on it -> may come off when pulling on it with a suction cup
b) designed to be pulled off by a suction cup -> should come off when pulling on it with a suction cup
a) is included in b)
It be surprisingly easy to disassemble things, when you happen to have the correct tool. We also do not know for how long the baby has been tugging away at it.
Yes, it is supposed to keep the passengers away from the glass, but it is not safety-relevant, if it does not. It is for thermal insulation and, avoiding having to replace the actual windows due to scratches, dirt, etc. This is immaterial to the question, if it failed or not though. The only relevant question in that regard is, if it was (albeit accidentally) removed the way it was designed to be removed or not A baby being able to remove that part in the intended way points to a potential design flaw, not a bad part.
Edit: According to this post the baby removed the part in the intended way.
That’s not how any of this works. A cosmetic interior piece “failing” is not indicative that any actual important parts of the plane will fail. And the maintenance of even minor components like this is heavily regulated. As soon as the plane lands the pilots will write up it up as a discrepancy, maintenance personnel will come out to look at it, and they’ll either fix it immediately if possible or secure it safely until it can be fixed in the near future.
It's always depressing when you see in real time that not only do people not have any idea how things work, they react with fear at the thought of trying to understand how things work.
Unless that thing was fractured and dented, it did not “fail”. You probably panic when you see a highway overpass with cracks in the concrete or visible repair work being done.
It’s a plane. Weight is a huge issue. They don’t want to waste weight making a non-structural part structural. The outer window carries the load. Also, they want to make inspection and maintenance easy, which means non structural parts should come off easy to reach the underlying structural parts.
It’s designed to pop off like that. Usually I have to pry it with a screwdriver, I don’t keep my babies suction cup toys in my toolbox though.
That pane is purely for aesthetics and keeping fingers away from the actual window panes. It’s just lexan, you could scratch it with a ring or phone or anything. You could crack it by pressing on it too hard.
Ah, I wouldn't worry too much, I once watched a pilot slide the cockpit window to yell at someone smoking on the runway and when sliding back it came off the force, they still had us board
I don’t care how many facts and anecdotes get thrown your way in opposition to you. That was a beautifully crafted comment that made beer come out of my nose.
The real glass is kinda similar to bulletproof glass but set up more to handle continuous pressure rather than sudden pressure. Cockpit windows are 4 panes of that stuff. This is only a plastic cover so people don’t touch the real glass
Oh no, the removable scratch guard was removed in the manner it's designed to be removed. Better express the same level of critical thinking as the baby.
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u/CamTheChamp1 Aug 20 '24
Good thing there’s multiple pieces of glass