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Flying Around in Circles

• August 19, 2008
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  Save money, fly slower

  Posted: August 19th, 2008, 3:05pm EDT

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  Just like cars, airplanes burn less fuel per mile when they fly slower. This is because the drag does up as the square of the airspeed, and the power required goes up as the cube of the airspeed. So