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
Yak_52TD t1_issbqcl wrote on October 18, 2022 at 10:33 AM Birds do too. If fleeing a predator, they take off into wind and then immediately turn with the wind to escape as quick as possible. Permalink 2
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