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A light plane attains an airspeed of 370 km/h. The pilot sets out for a Destination...

A light plane attains an airspeed of 370 km/h. The pilot sets out for a Destination of 800 km to the north but discovers that the plane must be headed 20° east of north to fly there directly. The plane arrives in 2.118 hours. What was the i-component of the wind velocity vector?

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Wind velocity vector can be caculate using below formula


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