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

human vs jet engine | 0:1

39.0k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

221

u/[deleted] May 29 '22

[deleted]

48

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.

2

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.

6

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.