Sentence examples for ground speed from inspiring English sources

Stated mathematically, the true ground speed was the vector sum of the craft's air velocity and the wind velocity.

Jet streams are of great importance to air travel because they affect the ground speed, the velocity relative to the ground, of aircraft.

Therefore, if one collects only one data point at each ground speed, there would be essentially no correlation between the fuel economy and the ground speed.

To see the correlation between ground speed and fuel consumption, we plotted the ground speed (speedometer reading) versus the fuel economy of our vehicle in Figure 3.

Then, an INS is aligned by ground speed from a DVL again.

The vertical line shows the ground speed of 113 km/h.

Despite the differences, there is an affinity among runners no matter their ground speed or modest goals.

The transponders eliminated the need for Lihoreau's sprints, and also collected each bee's flight trajectory, travel distance, and ground speed.

The ground speed of the vehicle, on the other hand, plays little role in its fuel consumption unless the vehicle travels in still air, in which case the ground speed becomes the same as the airspeed.

This assumption requires good platform motion compensation and good control of the PRF as a function of ground speed.

Once again we stress that in this equation v is the airspeed of the vehicle, not its ground speed.