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A person piloting a small airplane sets a course directly towards a town 209 km away along a heading of 45 degrees clockwise from due north, i.e. northeast, at an airspeed of 202 km/h. One hour later, the pilot realizes they are 7.50 km due west of the town (oops... due to the wind).
The sign convention for direction should be north as the positive y-axis and east as the positive x-axis.
What is the x-component (east/west) and y-component (north/south) of the wind velocity?
Ux = -7.5 km/h
Uy = 0 km/h