Ballistic Wind

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Ballistic Wind

That constant wind which would produce the same effect upon the trajectory of a projectile as the actual wind encountered in flight. Ballistic winds can be regarded as made up of range wind and crosswind components. See zone wind.

References

This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use