Originally Posted by
III Corps
The windows on the DC-9/MD-80 were also easy to open and the knob to open them was a real jewel of engineering.
Spent many an hour looking at that and wondering, "Who in the he11 designed this?" I mean, they worked OK but it was such an intricate Rube Goldberg looking mechanism. Takes a bit of faith in aerodynamics to get one's head around the Clear View window concept, too.