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Sentence | No. 8 Explorer
Editor|Explorer No. 8
On the plane, after going to the toilet, the feces fell directly and hit an unlucky egg, have you ever fantasized about it?
When you understand how to dispose of manure on airplanes, you won't think like that.
Early airplanes were actually similar to green trains.
Everyone knows that the green train is economical and affordable, and it is a necessary means of transportation for migrant workers.
But have you ever noticed a problem, when you go to the toilet on the train, your butt is cold, and you always feel that there is a wind blowing, it is because the toilet on the train is under the railroad tracks, and when you go to the toilet, the excrement will run down the pipe and rush into the tracks.
Early airplanes were like this, at the altitude of the plane, they could effectively break down some of the excrement, and it was difficult to find it with the eyes when it reached the ground, but if it was unlucky enough, it would still be hit by the excrement.
In July 2021, an unlucky gentleman in the UK was hit with feces.
The gentleman lived very close to Heathrow Airport, and he could see many planes flying through the sky every day, except for the occasional noise, which had no effect until the incident of feces falling from the sky.
Mr. Bad Luck ate and drank enough to walk around the garden to enjoy the flowers, and suddenly a lump of unknown liquid fell in the air, which happened to pour on Mr. Unlucky's body, and there was a foul smell from the garden where the birds were singing and fragrant, and Mr. Bad Luck looked up at the sky and saw a plane flying farther and farther, and instantly understood that this was the excrement that fell from the plane.
After a simple cleanup, Mr. Bad Luck looked up the flight records and quickly determined the flight serial number, but the airline refused to admit it, and Mr. Bad Luck could only find the city councilor to complain about it.
The city councillor ordered someone to investigate the matter, it turned out that the plane used a chemical toilet, and after the passengers pulled the excrement, because of the operation problem, the waste water in the toilet was not closed tightly enough, and the feces leaked out and hit Mr. Unlucky, for which British Airways has made statistics, 2.1 million domestic flights a year, about 25 times of.
For the on the plane, there are many countries in the 30s of the last century to consider this matter, but it has not been effectively improved, in World War II, many pilots after going to the toilet are directly thrown in the air, just like throwing bombs, relying on gravity to fall directly, with the development of the times, some countries have innovated the toilet on the plane.
As long as someone goes to the toilet and touches the toilet lid, the plane will make a loud sound, reminding the people below to prepare to drop the, evacuate quickly, to the 60s of the last century, civil aviation aircraft gradually became popular, the aircraft is equipped with a chemical toilet can still drop, which has also become a headache.
After years of development, the plane has finally developed a perfect toilet system, which is specially designed to treat the feces on the plane, so how to clean up the excrement on the plane?
The toilet system on the aircraft consists of two parts: one is dedicated to storing liquid waste on the aircraft, such as sewage, feces, etc., and the other is a device dedicated to the treatment of such garbage.
To put it simply, the disposal of this kind of garbage on the aircraft is dry and wet separation, which is to prevent the aircraft from turbulence and will not produce peculiar smells, and the aircraft is always ventilated, not only to circulate fresh air, but also to send sewage to a specific place for treatment, which is why the toilet on the aircraft is located at the rear of the aircraft, and the lavatory is at the front of the cabin.
Before the plane takes off, the staff will pour the excrement from the plane into a large bucket, and after the plane takes off, the excrement will be poured into the sewer, and then transported to the designated location at the airport for condensation nucleus separation, collection, and disposal.
However, some airports for simplicity and convenience, in the construction of the airport, laid drainage pipes and septic tanks, as long as the plane lands, directly discharge all the garbage in the plane, see the people who have not done the plane here will ask, said so much, did not say how to use the toilet on the plane?
Most of the toilets on the plane are at the head or tail of the cabin, and there are people on the red light and no one on the green light.
As for the toilet door, there are generally two kinds, one is with a doorknob, just open it directly, and the other is a folding door, as long as it is in the middle of the "Push" logo, it will be opened with a gentle push, and you must remember to "gently" push, and lock it directly when you enter the toilet.
Sit on the toilet, there are handrails and paper towels next to it, the blue button behind you is the flush button, the used paper must be thrown into the trash, wash your hands after going to the toilet, the red and blue color of the faucet represents nothing, as long as you press it, the water will automatically come out and stop, and there are hand sanitizer, paper and other objects next to the sink to facilitate hand washing.
epilogue
Those who don't fly don't have to worry about "flying" from outside the sky, and those who fly don't have to worry about the toilet air flow taking you away.
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