Originally Posted by
LineTroll
Our fuel farm is under the approach end of the runway and I got absolutely nailed by the wake vortex of a 757 tonight while filling a truck. I could hear it coming too, sounded like it was ripping the air apart.
Yeah - I stood directly under a KLM 747 landing at St. Maarten, and managed to avoid the vortices because they settled to the beach on either side. They sounded like crinkly paper being ripped.