For space travellers - the first part of an astronaut's space suit is the MAG (Maximum Absorbency Garment!). From the archives - Common question from flyers in the 1970s: "Can we use the bathroom while parked at the gate?" This seemed to come from the days when passenger trains literally dumped toilet waste onto the tracks. Understandably, train passengers were asked to 'REFRAIN from Flushing while in the station!'
Referring to the train travelling rules, my friend told me a story that he and his friends were having beer during the long trip, and despite the urge they kept all in. All until the station, where they released the liquids in the lavatory as quickly as possible, one by one. Well, teenagers... (I've corrected the typo - first it was "pissible", no intended joke at all :-) ).
I think it's funny we call lavatories or toilets "bathrooms." -- places that almost never contain bathtubs. I guess it's fun that that word (much like the word "toilet" itself) has transcended its literal meaning.
It's not unlike, in my mind, how we (Americans anyway, not sure about the rest of the world) can't bring ourselves to use the word "died" any more, at least with regard to humans. It's always "passed on" or "passed away".
@@ericanderson9706 I guess it's a little like that though "passed away" is at least a softer way of saying "dead" where "bathroom" is more rightly a room with a bathtub in it. Believe it or not, a "toilet" was at one time a headdress. "Restroom" is one you see a lot in the US and seems to be used the most. On rare occasions when I worked a crap job, I'd take extended breaks to the stall but seems misleading. I don't think most people are going there for a nap. Wet nap, maybe. On ships we call them "heads" which might have the closest direct meaning and on planes/trains we call them "lavatories" which translates to "place for washing." Perhaps the crudest but most accurate one is "pisser" or "shitter." The Aussies call it "the bog" and the English often say "WC" or Water Closet. I often call it "the hopper" which confuses most people until you look up the definition of a hopper. Funny enough another thing that has come to bug me is how the rest of the world calls people from the US, "Americans" which is a little like me calling someone French a "European" -- technically correct but needing some specificity. Mexicans, Canadians, Jamaicans, Panamanians and Brazilians are technically also "Americans" -- a lot of people from the US call themselves Americans as well. Most Presidents favor it as opposed to "US Citizens." or "United Statesians." I generally think it's daft and egotistical but what can you do? I'm outnumbered.
anyone who listens to military aviation stories will know that pilots who are jerks to their ground crews learn pretty quickly how easy it is for a relief tube to be blocked by foreign material.
I did not fancy using the camp port a loo that Air Rarotonga put in the baggage section on the Emb 110 Bandits, for the trips of up to four hours to the Northern Cook Islands.. I also managed to get the business class loo door stuck to the flight deck door of a 737- 800 on Virgin Australia. Both I and the Captain opened our doors at the same time. He took the door out of my hand. The Flight attendant saw me laughing and called the flight deck to untangle the handles. The Captain face, priceless.😊
I remember a buddy of mine, Junior, and myself, we were trying to fly back to Tucson, Arizona to resume school. For whatever reason, one of the few flights leaving out of O’Hare airport that day, was headed for Indianapolis, Indiana, and then on to Tucson. Somehow or another, we ended up in adjacent bathrooms in the DC 10, and the panels in the ceiling were easy enough to open: pushed a little button in, and it clicked and popped down with a spring, did that in two corners, the panels swung open. Next thing you know, we’re standing on top of the toilet lids, passing a joint between us in the overhead of a DC 10!
On a Transall C-160 plane, you were handed a bucket and a poncho, so everyone could watch your facial expressions while you were minding your business. Transall was in service until Dec 2021.
Or on older model C-130's, essentially a Home Depot bucket with a toilet seat on top near the aft ramp. Or a portable urinal for Army parachute drops. Those are interesting. Saw a female paratrooper use a funnel while standing. That was interesting.
My son's 8th grade class flew from Chicago to Washington DC on a dual aisle airplane. The highlight of the trip was when the flight attendants held a race of toilets sucking down toilet paper laid up the aisle. This apparently was the highlight of the whole trip - my son couldn't tell me anything about Washington DC but recounted the toilet paper race in detail.
Today's video was more of a Watch and Doo than a Read and Do 😉 Great video, never really thought of all the history behind something I admittedly take for granted every time I'm on board a plane.
Pee shoots still exist in some older small planes (you can see in the video from Ammo NYC channel where they detailed an abandoned Cessna 401). Some also hide the toilet under the seat.
Or a piddle pack on most fighter jets. Only for #1. #2, they just have to hold it. C-141B and later C-17 that I flew, basic airline style lavatories with an emphasis on basic. On certain missions with lots of PAX, they would roll on a comfort pallet. On one side a small galley unit and two lavatories.
The lavatory exhaust vents rely on the pressure difference at cruise altitude to force the air out and achieve the design exhaust flow rate. There's little to no lavatory exhaust on the ground. This is one of the reasons (not the only one) why using the aircraft lavatory on the ground is poor form. Wait until cruise when any odors will be promptly vented overboard.
@buttersPbutters. Incorrect. Lavatory vacuum systems use a vacuum pump for ground use. This pump is active below 16,000 feet where the pressure differential is insufficient to supply enough suction.
I've been on an aircraft where the bucket and curtain still existed, pop up the cushion and there's the bucket, and you pull a curtain around your seat in amongst everyone 😂 oh and turning the outlet tube on a caribou made the urine blow back on the person
Thanks for this Dunny episode everything i ever wanted to know about toilets while having breakfast 😅😅😅😅. Your 4 part series on Airline interview technique was absolutely mind blowing dont know how you guys and girls do it ,you really are very special people. Kym Adelaide
So how strong is the vacuum? At altitude, the system uses differential pressure to achieve the vacuum. At lower altitudes, electric blowers are used: According to one maintenance manual: "The blower is capable of producing a vacuum of 10 to11 inches of Hg and a flow volume of 270 CFM." Around 5psi? Differential pressure even higher. Given the area of the toilet bowl, this seems strong enough to hold someone in place and once the flush valve at the base of the seat closes, I assume the vacuum would be held in the toilet bowl. This is also assuming the toilet seat was "flush" with the bowl. I read somewhere that an overweight woman got stuck on an aircraft toilet seat (as she completely covered the seat). Passenger aircraft toilets can have electrochromic windows which darken when the aircraft lands (for privacy during groundstops).
from Copenhagen to England to pick up the plane’s owner and my dad. The plane was a Piper Malibu, a six-seater without a toilet, and I flew with two pilots. Shortly after takeoff, I realized I really needed to pee. But with no toilet onboard, I had to hold it in for over two hours. Even when offered a glass of Coca-Cola, I had to refuse! The plane did have a plastic bag system for emergencies, but I wasn’t quite ready to give that a try.
Man mag sich nicht vorstellen das sowas früher vom Himmel geregnet ist. Danke für die schöne Erklärung ! 😂 Ich hoffe dir bietet deine 747 auch eine anständige und gut funktionierende Toilette. 👋
For airlines to say that people don't spend much time in a toilet so they can make them smaller is an exercise in idiocy. The determining fact isn't how long people spend in the toilet, but how big people can be. Some people are the size of three normal men. This sort of fact must be considered when designing the size of a toilet.
It's not a BATHROOM! Otherwise it would have a bath! And I do not want to piss or shit in a bath!!! The room is a toilet and it has in it a toilet or a water closet! An obnoxious Americanism that we can soften to a delecate subject by using the word bathroom and not toilet or lavatory! I won't go on and tell you the difference between House and Home here now!
I once operated a flight from Vancouver to Montreal with an Airbus A320... and the entire toilet system! stopped working in the climb. Announcements to 'please wait for the next pit stop' etc.. and maintenance 'fixed' it at Edmonton. But the problem re-occurred on subsequent climbout - supposedly a 4 hour leg to Montreal... More announcements and an unscheduled landing in Winnipeg ensued - where everyone rushed to use the toilets in the terminal building and mechanics had another 'go' at the vacuum computer system. Thankfully, as we climbed through 16,000 on this leg, the FAs did a Flush Test - as we all waiting, hoping - and it all worked. phew. We had many laughs with our passengers at the end of this trip.
I've seen worse. Many years ago on an American Trans Air, a military contractor. Some military wife just changed the diaper on the tray table and put the dirty diaper in the seat back.
Mate toilet on planes are like wear high heals , gum boots , because there's always a puddle on the floor, never wear bear feet how many have stood on the seat , yuck!!, 😅 the loo sounds like you could be sucked into the loo , plane toilets suck you into the cargo hold hold Then Ur dumped at sea , I hope there's a parachute included
The first airplane lavatory was actually installed in the Enola Gay, especially made for the bombing run of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This way the pilot could drop a payload of his own. Without this device the mission could’ve been a catastrophe
There is a story that British bomber crews would empty their chemical toilets over Germany. They were ordered to discontinue the practice in case it was interpreted as chemical warfare.
I have the feeling that part of the text of this video have been AI created... No offense though, it's on topic, but the type of jokes are what I know an AI would write.
Thank you so much Cap. I’ve to say, I’m totally fascinated by all your explanations on interesting topics including things that makes me go hmmm. I want you to know, I appreciate you and your time.🫡
Ryanair looking at the bucket and curtain like 🤔
But you have to pay extra for the curtain. 🤣
Oooh I just got the toilet joke....well done sir well done
Ryanair thinking "how much can we charge for pressurisation?"
The bucket is sold as a premium seat 🤔
@@thompson37 in that case you will get other people that will pay that people have the curtain. O and the curtain will be a advertisement banner.
Who would have thought that the history of airplane bathrooms is more exciting than most in-flight movies?
@5:00 - You know you have just convinced at least one person to try this on their next flight.
The holder has a tachometer that cuts off the vacuum if the roll spins too fast.
Airlines seeing a weird increase in toilet paper consumption after this video:
Only Joe can make a video about airplane bathrooms while keeping it interesting. Good video.
For space travellers - the first part of an astronaut's space suit is the MAG (Maximum Absorbency Garment!). From the archives - Common question from flyers in the 1970s: "Can we use the bathroom while parked at the gate?" This seemed to come from the days when passenger trains literally dumped toilet waste onto the tracks. Understandably, train passengers were asked to 'REFRAIN from Flushing while in the station!'
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Referring to the train travelling rules, my friend told me a story that he and his friends were having beer during the long trip, and despite the urge they kept all in. All until the station, where they released the liquids in the lavatory as quickly as possible, one by one. Well, teenagers...
(I've corrected the typo - first it was "pissible", no intended joke at all :-) ).
I think it's funny we call lavatories or toilets "bathrooms." -- places that almost never contain bathtubs. I guess it's fun that that word (much like the word "toilet" itself) has transcended its literal meaning.
It's not unlike, in my mind, how we (Americans anyway, not sure about the rest of the world) can't bring ourselves to use the word "died" any more, at least with regard to humans. It's always "passed on" or "passed away".
@@ericanderson9706 I guess it's a little like that though "passed away" is at least a softer way of saying "dead" where "bathroom" is more rightly a room with a bathtub in it. Believe it or not, a "toilet" was at one time a headdress. "Restroom" is one you see a lot in the US and seems to be used the most. On rare occasions when I worked a crap job, I'd take extended breaks to the stall but seems misleading. I don't think most people are going there for a nap. Wet nap, maybe. On ships we call them "heads" which might have the closest direct meaning and on planes/trains we call them "lavatories" which translates to "place for washing." Perhaps the crudest but most accurate one is "pisser" or "shitter." The Aussies call it "the bog" and the English often say "WC" or Water Closet. I often call it "the hopper" which confuses most people until you look up the definition of a hopper.
Funny enough another thing that has come to bug me is how the rest of the world calls people from the US, "Americans" which is a little like me calling someone French a "European" -- technically correct but needing some specificity. Mexicans, Canadians, Jamaicans, Panamanians and Brazilians are technically also "Americans" -- a lot of people from the US call themselves Americans as well. Most Presidents favor it as opposed to "US Citizens." or "United Statesians." I generally think it's daft and egotistical but what can you do? I'm outnumbered.
@@ericanderson9706 I agree, why are people so scared to say died?
anyone who listens to military aviation stories will know that pilots who are jerks to their ground crews learn pretty quickly how easy it is for a relief tube to be blocked by foreign material.
Thank you for posting another video. You really motivate me to become a pilot.
I did not fancy using the camp port a loo that Air Rarotonga put in the baggage section on the Emb 110 Bandits, for the trips of up to four hours to the Northern Cook Islands.. I also managed to get the business class loo door stuck to the flight deck door of a 737- 800 on Virgin Australia. Both I and the Captain opened our doors at the same time. He took the door out of my hand. The Flight attendant saw me laughing and called the flight deck to untangle the handles. The Captain face, priceless.😊
I remember a buddy of mine, Junior, and myself, we were trying to fly back to Tucson, Arizona to resume school. For whatever reason, one of the few flights leaving out of O’Hare airport that day, was headed for Indianapolis, Indiana, and then on to Tucson. Somehow or another, we ended up in adjacent bathrooms in the DC 10, and the panels in the ceiling were easy enough to open: pushed a little button in, and it clicked and popped down with a spring, did that in two corners, the panels swung open. Next thing you know, we’re standing on top of the toilet lids, passing a joint between us in the overhead of a DC 10!
On a Transall C-160 plane, you were handed a bucket and a poncho, so everyone could watch your facial expressions while you were minding your business.
Transall was in service until Dec 2021.
Or on older model C-130's, essentially a Home Depot bucket with a toilet seat on top near the aft ramp. Or a portable urinal for Army parachute drops. Those are interesting. Saw a female paratrooper use a funnel while standing. That was interesting.
Video idea: the more elaborate bathrooms with showers on some luxury airlines like emirates, etihad etc
My son's 8th grade class flew from Chicago to Washington DC on a dual aisle airplane. The highlight of the trip was when the flight attendants held a race of toilets sucking down toilet paper laid up the aisle. This apparently was the highlight of the whole trip - my son couldn't tell me anything about Washington DC but recounted the toilet paper race in detail.
Today's video was more of a Watch and Doo than a Read and Do 😉 Great video, never really thought of all the history behind something I admittedly take for granted every time I'm on board a plane.
Now this is a subject I can sit down and get into. 😅
Captain Joe , look up Yorkshire airlines by " Hale and Pace " have you in stitches 😂 🙌
The relief tubes are pretty much the same solution that is used on even modern spacecraft (at least for liquid waste)
with how small lavatories are now... the "mile high club" is physically impossible
Don't forget the crew rest area !
That is probably the reason. (And while I have never tried it, I don't believe it. Humans can have sex in all kinds of cramped circumstances.)
don't challenge people they will find a way.
@@sirBrouwer People will find a way to fuck, if you challenge them or not. And that's a good thing.
Pretty sure that's the actual reason they're making then smaller. Having more seats is just collateral damage.
7:10 some people have tubes in their gliders, bag systems where you don't have to even do anything, or bottles/bags.
How to become 'very unpopular" at your gliding club - Forget to clean the waste tube after your flight!! d'oh
@gcorriveau6864 😂. I once found an old cammelbak in a duo discus. Luckily it was just water 😂
Pee shoots still exist in some older small planes (you can see in the video from Ammo NYC channel where they detailed an abandoned Cessna 401). Some also hide the toilet under the seat.
Or a piddle pack on most fighter jets. Only for #1. #2, they just have to hold it. C-141B and later C-17 that I flew, basic airline style lavatories with an emphasis on basic. On certain missions with lots of PAX, they would roll on a comfort pallet. On one side a small galley unit and two lavatories.
The lavatory exhaust vents rely on the pressure difference at cruise altitude to force the air out and achieve the design exhaust flow rate. There's little to no lavatory exhaust on the ground. This is one of the reasons (not the only one) why using the aircraft lavatory on the ground is poor form. Wait until cruise when any odors will be promptly vented overboard.
@buttersPbutters. Incorrect. Lavatory vacuum systems use a vacuum pump for ground use. This pump is active below 16,000 feet where the pressure differential is insufficient to supply enough suction.
I've been on an aircraft where the bucket and curtain still existed, pop up the cushion and there's the bucket, and you pull a curtain around your seat in amongst everyone 😂 oh and turning the outlet tube on a caribou made the urine blow back on the person
When I was on a Fokker 50 I was shocked at the existence of water in the toilet 😅 also the plug-in oxygen masks and armrest ashtrays!
EXCELLENT video! Thank you sir.
Thanks for this Dunny episode everything i ever wanted to know about toilets while having breakfast 😅😅😅😅.
Your 4 part series on Airline interview technique was absolutely mind blowing dont know how you guys and girls do it ,you really are very special people.
Kym
Adelaide
So how strong is the vacuum? At altitude, the system uses differential pressure to achieve the vacuum. At lower altitudes, electric blowers are used: According to one maintenance manual:
"The blower is capable of producing a vacuum of 10 to11 inches of Hg and a flow volume of 270 CFM."
Around 5psi? Differential pressure even higher. Given the area of the toilet bowl, this seems strong enough to hold someone in place and once the flush valve at the base of the seat closes, I assume the vacuum would be held in the toilet bowl. This is also assuming the toilet seat was "flush" with the bowl.
I read somewhere that an overweight woman got stuck on an aircraft toilet seat (as she completely covered the seat).
Passenger aircraft toilets can have electrochromic windows which darken when the aircraft lands (for privacy during groundstops).
Happy new year, great vid…
Awesome lil documentary Captain 🫡
How'd the bucket system handle the turbulances so often associated with those older low and slow flying proppy aircraft?
Exactly as well as you might expect! There are mitigations like sticking a broad base on the bucket or a latched lid but... far from ideal.
it would handle that job a bit crappy.
Great video cpt joe, Happy new year all the best for 2025
from Copenhagen to England to pick up the plane’s owner and my dad. The plane was a Piper Malibu, a six-seater without a toilet, and I flew with two pilots. Shortly after takeoff, I realized I really needed to pee. But with no toilet onboard, I had to hold it in for over two hours. Even when offered a glass of Coca-Cola, I had to refuse! The plane did have a plastic bag system for emergencies, but I wasn’t quite ready to give that a try.
I don't think this video will achieve the highest of all-time videos. I enjoyed it anyway.
he he just did his dudies
I'll beat you to it Captain Joe. How any couple can join the "5 mile high club" in these really confined spaces I really don't know lol.
Very cool! Can you also make such a video about inflight-entertainment systems?
8:07 until you get intercepted by a fighter jet and they disrupt your privacy 💀
Imagine being an upper class person from the 1930s, you're among the few people who can afford to fly and you have to shit in a bucket
What an interesting topic to start 2025! Happy New Year and I look forward to your channel in 2025!
Man mag sich nicht vorstellen das sowas früher vom Himmel geregnet ist.
Danke für die schöne Erklärung ! 😂
Ich hoffe dir bietet deine 747 auch eine anständige und gut funktionierende Toilette. 👋
I sort of always assumed the waste products would simply be dumped mid-air. Would explain the brown contrails.
Nooo! Don't tell people that 'airplane toilet can suck you in' is a lie! It's the most convincing argument to use on bad behaving passengers! ;)
If it was up to Ryan Air.... Toilets will disappear 😂
Glider pilots know you don’t needs toilets
Well, first flights might be short, but need for lavatories was much higher than on todays planes ;)
For airlines to say that people don't spend much time in a toilet so they can make them smaller is an exercise in idiocy. The determining fact isn't how long people spend in the toilet, but how big people can be. Some people are the size of three normal men. This sort of fact must be considered when designing the size of a toilet.
Where does the waste go?
Will they one day make the toilet quiet upon flushing? It's awfully noisy.
I think the early flights could have needed a bathroom - considering the pilots often were scared shit...
The flush is way too loud... The first thing I'd engineer is to make the flush much more silent.
And now we have seats with their own bathrooms
It's not a BATHROOM! Otherwise it would have a bath! And I do not want to piss or shit in a bath!!! The room is a toilet and it has in it a toilet or a water closet! An obnoxious Americanism that we can soften to a delecate subject by using the word bathroom and not toilet or lavatory!
I won't go on and tell you the difference between House and Home here now!
5:01 ohoh. wait … what? 😂😂😂
So the bucket and curtain system... There had to be a terrible smell there, no?
Some airplanes still have no bathrooms ...
✈️Water Closets on Airplanes✈️
No toilets? Prepare cleaners!
I once operated a flight from Vancouver to Montreal with an Airbus A320... and the entire toilet system! stopped working in the climb. Announcements to 'please wait for the next pit stop' etc.. and maintenance 'fixed' it at Edmonton. But the problem re-occurred on subsequent climbout - supposedly a 4 hour leg to Montreal... More announcements and an unscheduled landing in Winnipeg ensued - where everyone rushed to use the toilets in the terminal building and mechanics had another 'go' at the vacuum computer system. Thankfully, as we climbed through 16,000 on this leg, the FAs did a Flush Test - as we all waiting, hoping - and it all worked. phew. We had many laughs with our passengers at the end of this trip.
@@gcorriveau6864 i dont know what to call this story
If you've never tried to change a baby in plane toilet, you've not lived😂
Does that mean you go in with baby A and exit with baby B? that would be a baby change.🤓
I've seen worse. Many years ago on an American Trans Air, a military contractor. Some military wife just changed the diaper on the tray table and put the dirty diaper in the seat back.
Mate toilet on planes are like wear high heals , gum boots , because there's always a puddle on the floor, never wear bear feet how many have stood on the seat , yuck!!, 😅 the loo sounds like you could be sucked into the loo , plane toilets suck you into the cargo hold hold
Then Ur dumped at sea , I hope there's a parachute included
Did u dance around your living room an hour ago?😉
In the early years of aviation, you didn't need a toilet, everyone just wet their pants and worse!🥵🥵
They are also the entrance to the mile high club. lol
You still a Boeing pilot?
The first airplane lavatory was actually installed in the Enola Gay, especially made for the bombing run of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This way the pilot could drop a payload of his own. Without this device the mission could’ve been a catastrophe
There is a story that British bomber crews would empty their chemical toilets over Germany. They were ordered to discontinue the practice in case it was interpreted as chemical warfare.
Why did the AI put a poop counter on the thumbnail? Apparently 686 people have dumped their load in that very modern toilet.
Gamification, that's the highscore
Airplanes bathroom are cleaner than seat tablets 😔
So WIDE you cannot even turn around ...
Great video! But you're not gonna get your Mile-High card just yet. Better subscribe if you want THAT. :)
Huh!
The HP 42 had two dedicated lavatory cubicles located in the centre of the cabin. You need to get your facts right before making a video!
I have the feeling that part of the text of this video have been AI created... No offense though, it's on topic, but the type of jokes are what I know an AI would write.
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ah yes the TOILEE
The title instantly reminded me of the intro in the soul plane movie with Kevin Heart lol
The most unnecessary subject the world doesn't need to know but now must be required viewing
Watch Mythbusters.
Just commenting to say the AI thumbnail looks like crap
And you clicked on it anyways?
@@flywithcaptainjoe genius
@@flywithcaptainjoe solely to let you know my opinion
@@flywithcaptainjoe Turns out thumbnails are not the only criteria, and c'mon be better than just trying to dismiss criticism
stop it with the crappy AI generated thumbnails, for gods sake
Can you please at least use the euphemism "toilet"? I mean, we are talking about receptacles of human waste, right?
Why use euphemisms here? In this subject, we ALL are equally experienced, at least on the ground.
@@jarekferenc1149 I don't object. Call it "crapper".
Thank you so much Cap. I’ve to say, I’m totally fascinated by all your explanations on interesting topics including things that makes me go hmmm. I want you to know, I appreciate you and your time.🫡
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I would like to fly for Qatar Airways Airbus A 350-1000 for 40 years 🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦🇶🇦
Remember you can‘t choose what plane you want to fly: that‘s down to the airline to choose.
@@Stopaclotion Just buy Qatar Airways, problem solved.
@@Stopaclotion hhoooowwww
Captain Joe said it in one of his videos: ua-cam.com/video/R99e-9V3XCM/v-deo.htmlsi=U0-7ClJWBJQJ7fhW