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  2. Airfield traffic pattern - Wikipedia

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    Patterns are typically rectangular in basic shape, and include the runway along one long side of the rectangle. Each leg of the pattern has a particular name: [3] Upwind leg. A flight path parallel to and in the direction of the landing runway. It is offset from the runway and opposite the downwind leg. Crosswind leg. A short climbing flight ...

  3. Windward and leeward - Wikipedia

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    Windward is upwind from the point of reference, i.e., towards the direction from which the wind is coming; leeward is downwind from the point of reference, i.e., along the direction towards which the wind is going. The side of a ship that is towards the leeward is its "lee side".

  4. Overhead join - Wikipedia

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    With other traffic present in the circuit, the aircraft might be positioned downwind in the circuit behind or between other traffic in order to land in turn. Alternatives to the overhead join are to directly join the circuit by entering at a suitable corner, or a straight-in approach.

  5. Upwind scheme - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, if is negative the traveling wave solution propagates towards the left, the left side is called downwind side and right side is the upwind side. If the finite difference scheme for the spatial derivative, ∂ u / ∂ x {\displaystyle \partial u/\partial x} contains more points in the upwind side, the scheme is called an upwind-biased ...

  6. Wake turbulence - Wikipedia

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    During takeoff and landing, an aircraft's wake sinks toward the ground and moves laterally away from the runway when the wind is calm. A three-to-five-knot (3–6 mph; 6–9 km/h) crosswind will tend to keep the upwind side of the wake in the runway area and may cause the downwind side to drift toward another runway. Since the wingtip vortices ...

  7. Doctors Say This Nighttime Behavior Can Be A Sign Of Dementia

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    However, Dr. Kobylarz notes it can start as early as 1 p.m. for some people. What Sundowning Looks Like . There’s a difference between being totally over your day and sundowning. In addition to ...

  8. File:Upwind downwind example.png - Wikipedia

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  9. Juan Soto reportedly has multiple offers of at least $600 ...

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    As for what kind of money Soto could bring in, The Athletic reports he has offers of at least $600 million from all of his remaining contenders. The teams currently known to be in on him are still ...