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Well, okay. I'm a pilot from a family of pilots, too. I am looking at a plane landing and taking off in a stiff head wind and finding nothing remarkable about it.

A Cub running with little fuel and cargo on a cold day at low altitude has a pretty low stall speed. Something like 40mph. It doesn't take an extraordinary wind to do a short take off roll.



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