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Influence of wind on an aircraft’s ground speed
I'll start by addressing the ChatGPT argument. ChatGPT is notoriously for making good looking arguments that lack content (or are even wrong). "Wind isn’t a force" is true, but only on a ...
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Influence of wind on an aircraft’s ground speed
You are both right.
The airplane doesn't know the ground is there. It flies in circles at constant speed through the air. Anything that moves in a circle is accelerating toward the center of the ...
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Does flying an airplane opposite to the Earth's rotation direction save fuel & time?
It is actually the opposite way around. Note that the velocity relevant for fuel consumption is not the absolute velocity of the plane, but the velocity relative to the air it is travelling through.
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