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Old 1st Jan 2006, 22:20
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NickLappos
 
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Re: LYNX Records

Flying Lawyer is right, using the wind to exaggerate the groundspeed is a fine airshow trick.

However, when I showed off the Fantail at Paris, we purposely went up wind at peak speed, since 5 knots of wind is meaningless when you have 85 knots of airspeed to play with, and the professionals who were viewing would understand the conceit.
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