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How is this significant? Can't you land/takeoff with 0 feet given a strong enough headwind? The article doesn't seem to mention wind at all.
by Evidlo 4y ago
How is this significant? Can't you land/takeoff with 0 feet given a strong enough headwind?
The article doesn't seem to mention wind at all.
- satisfice 4y agoI guess the guy who posted this is not a pilot. Wind is a thing. Wind is real. Pilots know this.
- leejoramo 4y agoI don’t know Jason Kottke’s depth of knowledge about being a pilot, but I’d be willing to give him some credit. His father was a pilot and operated a small cargo airline. Jason regularly few with his father in small craft. Blog posts about his father https://kottke.org/tag/Jerry%20Kottke https://kottke.org/tag/Jerry%20Kottke And his decades of blog posts about flying. https://kottke.org/tag/flying https://kottke.org/tag/flying
- satisfice 4y agoWell, okay. I'm a pilot from a family of pilots, too. I am looking at a plane landing and taking off in a stiff head wind and finding nothing remarkable about it. A Cub running with little fuel and cargo on a cold day at low altitude has a pretty low stall speed. Something like 40mph. It doesn't take an extraordinary wind to do a short take off roll.
- Sharlin 4y agoHow many planes have a stall speed low enough to do that even in a strong headwind?
- AnimalMuppet 4y agoDepends. How strong is the headwind? IIRC, the US record is 231 MPH at Mt Washington. You could take off a 747 in 0 feet in that.