Toilets In Motion — Aircraft Toilets
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The toilet in a washroom on board an Airbus A330 (en route from London to Detroit). One of the toilets against the fuselage skin, not one of the only slightly more roomy center ones. |
Why do your ears sometimes feel pressure changes when you flush an airline toilet? Because the vacuum flushing may cause the pressure altitude within the tiny toilet cabin to quickly jump 5 to 20 meters, say from about 2000m pressure altitude to 2015m.
For other odd A330 photographs, see my Gallery of Crash Dump Screens. The seatback entertainment systems run an embedded version of the Linux operating system. The OS is fairly stable, but the application is not.
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One toilet along the fuselage centerline on a Boeing 747. This is from a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Chicago. |
The port and starboard lavatories in a Douglas DC-7, as seen at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC, USA.
The DC-7 was the last major piston-engined transport made by Douglas, built from 1953 to 1958. 348 were built, and 73 were still on the U.S. civil aviation registry in 2007!
Back in 1953, American Airlines charged $302 for a round-trip ticket — New York to Los Angeles and return.
One airborne toilet that I have used and failed to photograph was the all-metal toilet on board a Syrian Arab Airlines Tupolev Tu-154m. Surely it was aluminum, although it had the look of stainless steel.
| A Sani-Flush blue border indicates a toilet that I've used. |
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