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Originally Posted by James  Yeah, I can't see how that's safe. One of the big things they pushed when I was working on the flightline was areas you weren't supposed to stand in, and it was like 200 yards behind an engine, and 25 feet in front of an engine were bad news. We never had an incident involving engines when I was there, though. |
I used to work on an airport ramp. Saw one guy almost get sucked into an engine once while it was just warming up. They got the pilot to cut it just before he hit the turbine. The guy bloodied all his fingers clawing at the metal for life. One lucky son of a bitch that he was able to grab a hold of the edge and slow himself down enough.
Ive also seen what happens when a pilot puts a engine on full thrust with vechiles behind it. They sent a baggage trolly flying 300 feet through the air, and each of those carts weighs about 2-3 tons. Nobody injured in that incident, but one of the carts did land on another plane damaging it some.
Turbines of a plane landing dont place the air the same as one taking off. A turbine while landing will kinda disperse air to the sides and around more than just straight back which lets them keep it reved up incase they need to pull out but doesnt generate much thrust or something like that. So a plane landing wont knock shit over unless it engages its thrust to take off again- but then you better fucking believe it will send cars flying like leaves. Im sure a pilot could describe it in more detail, i think its called air breaking or something.
