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Old 31st Jan 2001, 21:45
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compressor stallrelative to a fixed point in space one aircraft is moving at the speed of rotation of the earth plus its ground speed and other the other minus its ground speed.
Neil Armstrong used to joke that the U.S. owed him overtime because the flight time to the moon and back differed from the elapsed time recorded on earth.