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== Real Life ==
* While not exactly the same as the trope the company [http://www.air-spade.com/index.html Air-Spade] manufactures tools that use a supersonic jet of air to excavate trenches.
* Aksons Engineering Co. manufactures [https://web.archive.org/web/20131001081659/http://www.aksonsengg.com/akson-Airknife.asp a knife] that uses hot pressurized air to cut synthetic yarn.
* While not ''exactly'' this trope, a sufficiently strong wind carrying dust and sand particles—a sandstorm or a dust devil for instance—can feel a lot like sandpaper to exposed skin.
** Even worse, tornadoes can cut one to shreds with their debris. It gets even more worse if there's material such as glass, which [[MythBusters|can conceivably]] decapitate someone with no problem.
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