Several weeks ago, I wrote about how an Airbus jet mysteriously lost a few windows after takeoff, in what has to be one of the most bizarre incidents we’ve seen in quite some time. There’s an interesting update, as an investigation has now been performed into this incident. Let’s first cover the background, and then…
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What absolute idiotic dinks. I trust prison time shall be sentenced to those involved with this recklessness.
Now I'm concerned about sunlight, heat affecting plane windows.
All those planes stored in the desert.
The temperature output onto metal of these lights can easily be 4500-5000 Kelvin, not nearly as hot as the sun.
Similar photoshoot related melting incident happened to the first B787 of Turkish Airlines as well, I recall.
Am I the only one who thinks something must be very wrong with the way windows are built if they can be damaged by shining light on them?
You do realize that planes have lights on inside the cabins and they don’t effect the windows at all. Planes also stored in hangers or at airport gates have direct light shining on it with no problems at all.
The logical conclusions is that some lights are hotter than others. So you should be able to connect the dots on your own
This.
I read the report and looked at the specification sheet of the light fixture - each halogen lamp draws 1,000 watts and looking at the picture there are 12 per stand. That's a ton of heat (not to mention electricity). Curious why the didn't use an LED fixture which burn significantly cooler and use less power...perhaps it was a light color objective.
Regardless this is a crazy story, thanks for sharing Ben!
Why does this happen to every plane then since they get hours of direct exposure to the sun every day especially when they’re flying?
It never happened with the Spirit of St. Louis either. They just don't build them like they used to.
1 The sun is less powerful than multiple of these very powerful film set lights.
2 The lights have been focused on the same spot for hours, won’t happen in the air like that.
3 The air at flying altitude is cool and thanks to the airplane flying, heat is not accumulating.
4 Most jets don’t have a black livery which exacerbated the issue for Titan Airways.