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Old 11-29-2010 | 07:51 AM
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Default RE: Is this possible?

Either the OP is a joke of some sort or the poster is incapable of understanding even the most basic aerodynamics. Someone who says you can point a plane's nose straight up in a 20 kt wind and have it fly straight up without being carried downwind by the wind "because I've done it" is not someone who can be reasoned with. The "groundspeed is 40 kts so it will zoom up at 40 kts when you turn it 90 degrees" is revealing, too. A plane flying in a moving mass of air is still in that moving mass of air when it changes direction. Until one can grasp that it's pointless to throw numbers around.