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Thread #147881 Message #3430043
Posted By: Jeri
02-Nov-12 - 03:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Mythbusters airplane takeoff problem
Subject: RE: BS: The Mythbusters airplane takeoff problem
What 999 said. It depends on windspeed. The MPH serve to generate the wind. There's that song "you are the wind beneath my wings" (but you need wind over them too).
The gliding that prop planes can do is not usually generally done by jets, which do not glide so much as they do plummet. But that's because of weight, wing shape and the amount of lift needed...I think.