Larry, If it’s a direct tailwind we get all of it in our favor, even up in the thin air of the stratosphere.
Adam On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM Larry Flesner via KRnet < krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote: > > As there are zero posts on the net I'll send this out as a test message. > > While spending 6 hours monitoring my daughters flight from Los Angles to > New York, non stop, on ADS-B exchange.com and Flight aware, I'm > wondering what the odds are that she flew within one mile of directly > overhead of her only sibling (sister) house at the halfway point. I > alerted my second daughter and she went outside and heard her sister > pass overhead above the solid cloud deck. > > Second, while watching the flight experiencing a 150 mph tailwind over > the Midwest I'm wondering, does an airplane benefit 100 % of the > tailwind as increased ground speed or is there some percentage of loss > due to the thinner density of the air as compared to a boat floating > downstream in a river? See what happens when you have too much > recliner time. 😕 > > And to Luis, you aren't going to let that tailwheel win, are you? > > Larry Flesner > > -- > KRnet mailing list > KRnet@list.krnet.org > https://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet >
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