TIL: Airplanes take off and land into the wind. They takeoff into the wind to reduce the groundspeed required to lift and land into it to reduce groundspeed when landing. grupooneair.com Submitted by Key-Code-4296 t3_y6ob9n on October 17, 2022 at 10:08 PM in todayilearned 86 comments 529
thebedla t1_issb0l8 wrote on October 18, 2022 at 10:24 AM Which is why aircraft carriers steam into the wind when launching and recovering aircraft. Adding the ship's speed and wind speed to "ground" speed makes takeoff shorter and effectively makes the landing strip longer. Permalink 3
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