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IN a recent discussion of the action of an airplane encountering gusts, it is stated that a velocity of about six metres per second may be regarded as a mild gust. Making use of an exponential equation and starting from a condition of still air, increasing to a certain intensity, the value of the exponent is taken as determining the sharpness of the gust. With a value of 1, the gust reaches nearly its maximum value in one second, which would be a decidedly sharp gust.
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MCADIE, A. Airplanes and Atmospheric Gustiness. Nature 99, 125 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099125a0
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