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With an engine fire, at speed, the vast majority of the heat will be from the flame, in the air, traveling backwards at hundreds of miles per hour. This leaves the radiant heat. At speed, the radiant heat, from a fuel fire, has no hope of overcoming the many hundred mph wind that is scrubbing along the window, cooling it off.


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