All About Jet Blast: A Potential Hazard On Ramps, Taxiways And Runways

Patrick Veillette, Ph.D. August 20, 2019
Credit: Elaine Greenan
Imagine landing late at night at an airport like Chicago O’Hare International (KORD), requesting and being granted the most expeditious taxi route to your ramp. Once underway, quite suddenly your King Air is violently lifted off the ground and flipped upside down. This actually happened...
Patrick Veillette, Ph.D.

Upon his retirement as a non-routine flight operations captain from a fractional operator in 2015, Dr. Veillette had accumulated more than 20,000 hours of flight experience in 240 types of aircraft—including balloons, rotorcraft, sea planes, gliders, war birds, supersonic jets and large commercial transports. He is an adjunct professor at Utah Valley University.

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