How do flying airplanes and flying birds possess kinetic energy and potential energy at the same time?

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Solution

Because they are not at rest at in the sky .In sky too they are moving with some velocity so they posses kinetic energy and they posses potential energy due to height above the ground.So they posses both kinetic and potential energy.

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