Re: Look backwards for safety

From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Sep 30 2001 - 13:31:14 MDT


Yep. The tradeoff is that many more passengers would get motion sick.

John Clark wrote:
>
> Speaking of airline safety, I've often thought that one simple and cheap change
> that would help a lot is have all the passenger seats face the back of the airplane
> not the front. If I'm going to decelerate from 200 mph to zero in one second or so
> I'd rather have the force applied over my entire body rather than just around my
> waist by a seatbelt.
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net

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