The tip of the spinner on the IAE V2500 jet engine is actually made of soft rubber and th… — @flywithmat

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@flywithmat's TikTok video "The tip of the spinner on the IAE V2500 jet engine is actually made of soft rubber and there’s a clever reason for it. Unlike other parts of the engine’s ice protection system, the spinner itself isn’t heated. Instead, the flexible rubber tip acts as a passive anti-icing system. If ice starts to build up, the rubber naturally flexes and vibrates, breaking the ice off before it can grow into a significant mass. The V2500 powers aircraft of the Airbus A320ceo Family, including the A319, A320 and A321. Sometimes the simplest engineering solutions are the smartest 😎" has 6,089,265 views, 472,209 likes, 3,965 comments, 23,947 shares in the public metrics captured by this index. That is an engagement rate of 8.21% (likes, comments and shares over views). It was posted over two weeks ago and runs 9 seconds. It has been saved 18,605 times.

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The capture indexed here reports 6,089,265 views, 472,209 likes and 3,965 comments.

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Across the captured metrics the engagement rate is 8.21% (likes + comments + shares over views).

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It was posted on 2026-09-24, over two weeks ago.

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The captured clip runs 9 seconds.