What is "groundspeed"

Usage examples of "groundspeed".

And, sir, although the present groundspeed of the station is slower, the station at apogee is at the extreme altitude length of the Gorgon.

Fighters now approaching five hundred knots groundspeed and accelerating rapidly.

New groundspeed to next checkpoint--oneone-nine-five kilometers per hour.

Carefully watching his Dopler groundspeed readout, he nudged the throttle of his twin Kuznetsov NK-144 turbofans up until the groundspeed read the proper value, then reset the Backfire's wings until the proper launch angle of attack was reestablished.

The computers fed altitude, heading, airspeed, groundspeed, and drift through a set of precomputed ballistics data, and derived an exact release point based on that information.

Aircraft is currently on the two-eight-two degree radial from Hoquiam at one hundred an thirty nautical miles, flight level two-five-zero, groundspeed four-twenty knots.

Pilot, center up on the target and try like hell to hold your airspeed steady Dave, get a groundspeed and mileage to the target and start watch.

The pilot of Universal 107 was still flying over two hundred nautical miles per hour groundspeed and was starting to overtake the slower traffic in front of him.

We're doing a manual groundspeed, and he's gone from two-forty to about three hundred in the past few minutes.

I am also tracking a slow-moving target sixteen miles southeast of the capital at fifteen hundred feet, groundspeed one hundred knots, ETA to the capital about twelve minutes.

To the right of the Bajoran altitude, alignment, and groundspeed indicators, a small, circular scanner field showed a pulsing yellow dot at its center to mark Kirk’s position.

His eyes were on the GPS navigation system, which was taking its signals from four orbiting nuclear clocks and fixing the aircraft's exact position in three dimensions, along with course and groundspeed and wind-drift figure generated by the bomber's own systems.

It hummed right along, belching readouts of airspeed, groundspeed, altitude, wind direction and velocity, true course, magnetic course, drift angle, time to go to checkpoint, etc.

He landed right on the canopy of number two, but with nothing to grasp and the groundspeed building up rapidly, he beat on the glass canopy panels.

The chart had the triangle fix position marks on them, along with the old-style cross data blocks with Zulu time, track, groundspeed, and winds or drift angle.