If an aircraft is flying at 400 miles/hour and encounters a head wind of 40 miles/hour, what is the resultant ground speed?

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Hana Lyons

30 January, 18:30

If an aircraft is flying at 400 miles/hour and encounters a head wind of 40 miles/hour, what is the resultant ground speed?

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Emerson Maxwell · Answer 1

Look at it this way:

Every time the plane flies through 400 miles of air,

the air moves it 40 miles backwards.

So it only covers 360 miles of ground in an hour.