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Old 06-25-13 | 10:36 AM
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Originally Posted by FBinNY
Not quite, Drag is proportional to the square of wind speed not ground speed.
Doh! I wasn't paying attention. My bad. In still wind, power to overcome drag goes as the cube of the road (hence wind) speed. If there is wind, it gets slightly more arithmetically complicated.
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