WTC Dust
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Some air does move forward, and this forward-moving air doesn't stop if the plane comes to a sudden halt. You're also agreeing with me, by the way.
I have observed wake turbulence on many occasions over decades of working as an aircraft mechanic. They do not appear to behave as you seem to think they do. I could get a video within a couple of weeks for your observation. They are only clearly visible in very humid conditions or during precipitation. The do not appear to move forward with the aircraft, and if they do in fact move forward at all it is at a speed a small fraction of the aircraft's speed. I would liken it to expecting a butterfly to slam into an explosive wave and be observable and continuing forward against the explosive force.
Maybe in a very controlled experiment with very sensitive measuring instruments these two could be summed or measured. With what we have available I would expect the wake turbulence to be rendered completely unobservable by the explosive blast orders of magnitude more powerful than the wake turbulence.