{"id":381042,"date":"2026-03-06T04:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/true-snow-actually-increase-aircraft-engine-thrust\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T04:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:01:17","slug":"is-it-true-that-snow-can-actually-increase-aircraft-engine-thrust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=381042","title":{"rendered":"Is It True That Snow Can Actually Increase Aircraft Engine Thrust?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snow and jet engines have a complicated relationship. On one hand, winter operations in many countries, including the US, routinely involve departures in falling snow and sub-zero temperatures. From regional aircraft taking off at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256586\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/minneapolis-st-paul-international-airport\/\"  >Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport<\/a><\/span> (MSP) to widebodies pushing back at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255250\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>New York John F. Kennedy International Airport<\/span><\/span> (JFK), aircraft operate safely in conditions that look anything but friendly to machinery that depends on massive volumes of air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when aircraft operate in snowy conditions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,396,398,1591,1141,1095],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-381042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-engine","category-snow","category-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=381042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381043,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381042\/revisions\/381043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=381042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=381042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=381042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}