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Old 2nd Jan 2006, 01:07
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Re: LYNX Records

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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.
Now THERE'S a Freudian slip of the first magnitude!

Conceit, indeed!
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