Ground speed
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ground-speed-317-8635115
title:
Ground speed
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Ground speed is the horizontal speed of an aircraft relative to the Earth’s surface. It is vital for accurate navigation that the pilot has an estimate of the ground speed that will be achieved during each leg of a flight. An aircraft diving vertically would have a ground speed of zero. Information displayed to passengers through the entertainment system of airline aircraft usually gives the aircraft ground speed rather than airspeed. Ground speed can be determined by the vector sum of the aircr
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Horizontal speed of an aircraft relative to the ground
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_speed
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2023-05-06T00:32:46Z
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