Doesn't that imply that a two litre one could potentially contain as much stored energy as the smallest statutory pressure vessel (at least when there's not much liquid)? ICBA to look up the actual figures.
Admittedly they split rather than fragment, and don't contain much mass.
What ? Britain isn't in the EU?
Twill be for a while yet.
Did you get an answer to this I am now in the same possition of wanting to take paint samples to cork
many.
NT
Except the consensus was to phone the airline!
On a flight from Guernsey I noticed the half drunk bottle of water implode as we ascended. I would imagine the paint pot might suffer the same on the way up, depending how fill it was to start with. There is no guarantee which way up the pot will fly.
Seems unlikely given that despite pressurisation cabin pressure *drops* with altitude.
Tim
Surely the pressure in the aircraft *reduces* when you go up, the cabin is pressurised but not to full atmospheric pressure at sea level. So the bottle (and paint cans) should explode when you go up.
Probably imploded on the way down. ;-)
I think I am right in saying the cabin is pressurised but not to `sea level` pressure, as you drunk some en route and then sealed it then the pressure around it would increase as it descends to sea level and therefore make the bottle implode.
darn, sleepy post, it was the escape of air when I opened the bottle on the way up that drew my attention to the change in air pressure.
Reminds me of the time I had a flight in a Short 330, which had the feel of being little more than a Leyland National with wings.
Boiled sweets were handed round before take-off and landing, intended to promote swallowing and hence ease the discomfort on our ears. Being unpressurised they couldn't gain much height to get above the weather.
The interior trim panels were covered with sticky-backed plastic, and, as the plane gained height, little bubbles appeared as it lifted off the backing. On descent, it all shrank back again.
It amused me that the flight deck was so small that each pilot had his own sliding door, through which his in-flight cuppa was duly passed.
Chris
No disabled access then? Tsk Tsk.
Reminds me of our flight from the Masai Mara to Nairobi in a Dakota older than me. Except we had the added "joy" of heavy turbulence and them having run out of sick-bags on the out-bound flight.
If you are flying Aer Lingus, no!
The general airport guidelines do not seem to restrict it, but the airline will not carry it.
AB
I have a US boat ... and to get colour coded gel coat patch paste .... it is a real pain. Banned from airline luggage and normal shipping. Has to be shipped as 'Hazardous material' and shipping then costs about 3 x value of goods.
Then good old customs & excise puts 20% on top .... and then courier adds a £20 fee for collecting the duty ..... makes a £30 pot damn expensive by time I get it.
The stuff is consistency of toothpaste and in a small 2oz pot in a sealed package - far less risk that a 1L bottle of whisky ... but it is classed as Hazardous and to take it on a plane is a Federal Offence.
Ship it - at least you won't have to pay duty. Or take the Ferry to Cork.
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