{"id":7475,"date":"2024-02-25T22:44:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/?p=7475"},"modified":"2024-02-25T22:45:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T14:45:23","slug":"whats-ground-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-ground-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s ground effect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ref Ch5<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: air cushion phenomenon<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reason of ground effect is that the air that is trapped between the wing and the landing surface, as if there were an air cushion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the plane is very close to the surface (say just before touchdown),\u00a0 it would suddenly feel like the plane did not want to go lower, and it would just want to go on and on. This phenomenon is called ground effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ref Ch5 Ans: air cushion phenomenon The reason of ground effect is that the air that is trapped between the wing and the landing surface, as if there were an air cushion. When the plane is very close to the surface (say just before touchdown),\u00a0 it would suddenly feel like the plane did not want<a class=\"read-more \" href=\"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/aviation\/whats-ground-effect\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-bak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7478,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7475\/revisions\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommykwan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}