Answer to Question #80536 in Physics for EKEMHE MOSES

Question #80536

An aircraft at a distance of 500m from the control tower of an air strip begins to taxi his way on a runway ,from the tower, with a speed of 100km/hr. If one of the pilots in the cockpit begins to run towards the tail section of an aircraft with a speed of 1m/s, how fast will the observer in the control tower,see the pilot approaching the tail section?

Expert's answer

The speed of the pilot approaching the tail section:
V_p=V-v
V_p=100/3.6-1=26.8 m/s.