Wonderful_Roof1739 t1_isuwfq5 wrote on October 18, 2022 at 9:42 PM Reply to comment by danielcw189 in 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. by Key-Code-4296 I loved the episode of Mythbusters where they tried to do this at scale Permalink Parent 1
Wonderful_Roof1739 t1_isuwfq5 wrote
Reply to comment by danielcw189 in 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. by Key-Code-4296
I loved the episode of Mythbusters where they tried to do this at scale