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
OnionTruck t1_isr1rn7 wrote on October 18, 2022 at 1:46 AM I learned this at 10 years old when I learned that aircraft carriers go to full speed into the wind when conducting flight operations. Permalink 0
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