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Originally Posted by orange
It will never fly, it will never move forward, there will never be any air over the wings. Its airspeed starts and remains 0. That's why planes take off from a runway. They have to build up to a high groundspeed before they can ever dream about airspeed.
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Wait just a minute orange, pilots NEVER care about groundspeed! If you were to tie a model plane to a string in a very high wind it could fly even though it's not moving relative to the ground. You can't deny that would be true.