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User currently offlinePMN From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2005, 562 posts, RR: 1
Posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 2921 times:

I was at AMS yesterday, and noticed on this KLM 767 what looks like it might be an air intake or some kind of access hatch. Does anyone know exactly what purpose this serves? I've never seen it before.

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Cheers
Paul


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User currently offlineFutureUALpilot From United States of America, joined May 2000, 2561 posts, RR: 9
Reply 1, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 2908 times:

Air intake for the APU maybe?


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User currently offlineN243NW From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 1491 posts, RR: 21
Reply 2, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 2895 times:

Hi Paul-

I'm almost certain that is the APU inlet door. This is where the air enters the rear fuselage and runs through a duct to the APU in the tail. You can see a similar type of door on the 737 in a slightly different location:

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If by any chance this is not what I think it is, it is probably a part of the aircraft's pressurization/air conditioning system.

-N243NW bigthumbsup 


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User currently offlinePMN From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2005, 562 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 2886 times:

Thanks N243NW, I always wondered where the APU's air supply came from. Makes sense!

Paul


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User currently offlineNewark777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 9348 posts, RR: 33
Reply 4, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 2893 times:

They mention it in this picture:


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User currently offlineC133 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 225 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 2864 times:		 Support Airliners.net - become a First Class Member!

APU inlet, pretty sure.


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User currently offlineLimaFoxTango From Antigua and Barbuda, joined Jun 2004, 692 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 2866 times:

It's the APU air inlet door. 757's and777's have them there as well.

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User currently offlineAPFPilot1985 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 hours ago) and read 2828 times:

Would the inlet door on the A320 be just below the front of the tail on the co pilots side? Similar to the 737?

User currently offlineAirWillie6475 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 2448 posts, RR: 1
Reply 8, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 2726 times:

When I was young I noticed this on a 747 and I was scared that that part of the plane was broken. On the 747 that opening looks big.

User currently offlineIFixPlanes From Germany, joined Feb 2005, 238 posts, RR: 0
Reply 9, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 2705 times:

@APFPilot1985

Take a look at this Photo:
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Ingo


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User currently offlineJAGflyer From Canada, joined Aug 2004, 3320 posts, RR: 4
Reply 10, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 15 hours ago) and read 2348 times:

Usually you will see heat waves coming out of this opening from the APU.


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User currently offlineMD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13333 posts, RR: 64
Reply 11, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 12 hours ago) and read 2291 times:

The A320 APU inlet is on the bottom of the tail cone.

JAGFlyer,

There should be no heat coming out of this door, since it is used to suck COOL air into the APU. The heat comes out of the exhaust in the tail.

Jan

User currently offlineVS74741R From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2005, 272 posts, RR: 0
Reply 12, posted (8 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 2243 times:

The 747 APU inlet door is the most obvious I think.


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