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    Is It Groundspeed or Airspeed for Moth Flight in a Wind Tunnel?

    surely that can't be right - the insects fly into a headwind so the windspeed must be a negative number (see http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/instruments/q0210.shtml) using a positive number gives an airspeed of -0.8m/s! moths and most other animals fly into head winds for tracking purposes
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    Is It Groundspeed or Airspeed for Moth Flight in a Wind Tunnel?

    surely airspeed would be groundspeed-windspeed (which in this case would be negative 1m/s due to it being a headwind)?
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    Is It Groundspeed or Airspeed for Moth Flight in a Wind Tunnel?

    Hi all, I am involved in a project to fly small moths down a wind tunnel to measure their flight patterns. the moths fly a total of 1.15m into a headwind of 1m/s. i am currently using velocity=distance/time to calculate an average speed but am unsure if this would be a called a...