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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.
As he climbed back into his seat, the copilot's airspeed indicator began to rapidly decrease.
During take off, the computer will relay his ground speed, airspeed and height from the runway.
The enemy pilot had throttled back, reducing airspeed and flattening the spiral 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.
Also, due to the static port's position, many airspeed indicators are inaccurate during a slip.

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