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What is an airspeed?

What is an airspeed? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (aviation) The speed of an aircraft relative to the air through which it is flying.
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Every additional knot of airspeed when crossing the threshold will cause the aircraft to float an additional 1,000 feet down the runway.
This mission consists of up to 100 waypoints, guiding the aircraft home using altitude and airspeed settings at each waypoint.
As he climbed back into his seat, the copilot's airspeed indicator began to rapidly decrease.
The plane's clamshell airbrakes at the back of the fuselage keep airspeed from rising uncontrollably during the dive.
If he took this logic to the extreme, the next course of action might mean a radical dive to pick up airspeed so we could pop up over the trees.
In reality, we control airspeed and altitude with the coordinated use of both pitch and power.

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