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Though it's worth noting that "significant water ingestion" is a design requirement of airplane turbine engines. You can see testing videos on youtube.

They are designed to fly through an amount of water (clouds) without damage or significant performance reduction.



Clouds are very, very different to outhouse-sized amounts of saltwater though…




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