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Old 27th Mar 2014, 08:29
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Trent 972
 
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Arnold, click on the link in Creampuff's post 6 posts above.
Not a bad dissertation, remembering the stronger the H/W component and/or the lower the IAS, the greater the effect.
The basics are, as you go faster your drag will increase, but the exposure time to the headwind over a set ground distance will decrease. The relationship is not linear. Somewhere between the 2 extremes is nirvana.
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