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.
What is the rocket equation? How do airplanes fly? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Chuck Nice go through some things you thought you knew about how airplanes fly, x-rays, and how to fuel a rocket.
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