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What Matters Is the Airspeed Over Your Wings
The air speed is what matters to whether you're going to stall, right? It's how fast is the air moving over your wings. So every plane, if it has the option, is going to take off into the wind. Every airport and aircraft carriers have at least two runways at an angle to each other.
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