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Originally Posted by BRPORSCHE
Yeah it looked like the video was shot in a valley with the mountain on the otherside. I guess thats exactly the reason why carriers launch into the wind? So the plane doesn't have to physically be moving? Just the air has to be moving fast enough over the wings to produce lift?
This is too cool.
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Airspeed (speed of the air moving over the wings) is everything to the physics of flight, groundspeed (speed relative to a fixed position on the ground) is meaningless to the physics of flight.
You are correct. It is the reason carriers launch into the wind, also why they land into the wind.