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Air pressure and density

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A lighting the runway with under 1000 ft to go, the pilots breathed a sigh of relief. Aeronautical engineers improve continually on that imbalance with better airfoils and powerplants along with aircraft designs and materials to reduce weight and drag. inches of mercury (1013.25 Pressure altitude also serves an additional purpose.