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Glide Range and Endurance

OK with head wind the gliding range will decrease but what about tailwind? will it increase?

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Ground effect

As you leave ground effect the Induced drag increases to it's normal value and so climb performance decreases right after takeoff. Ground effect only ...

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Chord Ratio

Sorry but just to confirm. So Chord ratio is thickness to chord length ?

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