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  • 11-12-2017
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If an aircraft is flying at 400 miles/hour and encounters a head wind of 40 miles/hour, what is the resultant ground speed?

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AL2006 AL2006
  • 11-12-2017
Look at it this way:

Every time the plane flies through 400 miles of air,
the air moves it 40 miles backwards.
So it only covers 360 miles of ground in an hour.
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