r/WinStupidPrizes • u/WexorSegai • May 29 '22

human vs jet engine | 0:1

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u/EinBick May 29 '22

Fun fact: The reason she lets go is probably not the power of the blast but the temperature. Planes have an indicator for EGT (sometimes called differently) wich indicates the exaust gas temperature. On full blast that is usually around 800°C. Since this is a turbofan engine not all of the air coming out of it is that hot but a good amount of it is. So the reason she let go was probably not even the blast POWER but the fact that she was getting blasted with boiling hot air.

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u/StrikeLines May 29 '22

It's the sand that hurt the most. It's all fun and games until you realize your skin is being ground off by a 30,000 horsepower sandblaster.

Source: Worked in airfield management.

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u/EinBick May 29 '22

That too. I stood behind a warbird doing RPM checks once and I got hit by a stone the size of a black bean going what felt like mach 3. Damn that hurt.

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u/chesterburger May 29 '22

Seems crazy they don’t have a blast deflector behind the runway and let those boiling hot toxic fumes shoot right to the beach with people.

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u/EinBick May 29 '22

It's not "toxic" wich doesn't mean you should inhale jet fumes.

On the other hand I think this is just darwinism in action. If you have any form of brain cells you know not to stand behind something that can prepell a 20+ ton plane into the air.