Ground effect

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What Wikipedia says

In aircraft, the ground effect is the reduced aerodynamic drag that an aircraft's wings generate when they are close to a surface (land or water).

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Ground effect (aerodynamics)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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