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I want to know how it feels to open the cockpit window at 200 kts. Also, how far out do they need to lean to reach the whole window?


I've exited an aircraft at 220kts a few times. It's very hard and feels almost like hitting a wall. I'll quote myself after the first time when it knocked me for a loop:

> That wind made me it's bitch.


I've done it at 140kts with a GoPro. Feels like your arm is in cold turbulant water. Presumably at 200kts the forces would be double.


I guess by looking at the picture of the cockpit inside that one of the pilots only cleaned the part of the window on the left side which was reachable.




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