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Does my model aircraft propeller beat the sound barrier?
I fly model aircraft. Recently I changed from a "1300kv" motor to a "1500kv" motor. The difference is in speed; the 1300kv can go about 16,400rpm full-throttle and with a fully charged battery and the ...
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Does the rotation of the earth dramatically affect airplane flight time?
Say I'm flying from Sydney, to Los Angeles (S2LA), back to Sydney (LA2S).
During S2LA, travelling with the rotation of the earth, would the flight time be longer than LA2S on account of Los Angeles ...
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Paper airplane physics
I am working on a game involving flying and steering a paper airplane for WP7. I want the plane to fly just like how normal paper airplanes fly (see this game for an example ...
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What does cross-track wind mean?
In aircraft literature, what does cross-track and along-track wind directions mean? Please explain in terms of the aircraft's motion relative to the wind direction. I can hazard a guess: along-track ...
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Why does an airplane have more lift near the ground?
I've noticed that an airplane appears to have more lift when it's almost touching the ground then it has 100 feet or more in the air. What causes this to occur?
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time difference with airplane travel direction
a fight from east to west, (e.g. Australia melbourne to perth) takes longer than travel backwards. (west to east).
What's the reason?
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How much friction is caused by a 10x10 cm window on the side of an airplane?
Say that the airplane is going in 1000 km/h. On the side of the airplane, there is a 10x10 cm window. How much friction would this window cause. For the sake of the calculation, imagine that the ...
