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High temperature reduces aircraft performance in a variety of ways. Hot air is less dense than cool air, meaning it contains fewer oxygen molecules that engines require to support combustion. It also means the wings will produce less lift for a given ground speed. This, at a minimum, increases the required takeoff distance, possibly to greater than the available runway length.

Above about 120F, many airplanes cannot take off because this exceeds their demonstrated safe performance.

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