crosswind
Sign in to savethumb|In a crosswind landing, the fuselage of the plane may be skewed relative to the runway
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It is catalogued under topics including Aerodynamics and Road hazards.
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thumb|In a crosswind landing, the fuselage of the plane may be skewed relative to the runway
A crosswind is any wind that has a perpendicular component to the line or direction of travel. This affects the aerodynamics of many forms of transport. Moving non-parallel to the wind direction creates a crosswind component on the object and thus increasing the apparent wind on the object; such use of cross wind travel is used to advantage by sailing craft, kiteboarding craft, power kiting, etc. On the other side, crosswind moves the path of vehicles sideways and can be a hazard.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “crosswind” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.