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Old 11th November 2009 | 21:24
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Cough
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JSP - I'm guessing that DERG is referring to the small amount of kinetic energy taken out of the landing aircraft when the wheels spin up (spin up wheels requires a force which comes from the velocity of the a/c), though I would think that it is less than a knot....

...Probably wrong tho'
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