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Can someone please explain the physics of that video. That plane should be stalling and falling right out of the air. Is it defying bernulli's principle? Come on people why is that happening?
Headwind and a low stall speed...... Love it! If you get a fast enough headwind and a low enough stall speed you can actually land with zero groundspeed or while moving backwards over the ground. Did this with an r/c airplane, never did it with a real one though.
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