A boy twirls a 1.8 kg toy airplane on a string. The radius of the circle is 68 cm and the speed of the plane is 4.1 m/s. One of the wings (mass of wing = 0.5 kg) suddenly breaks off, but the boy keeps the airplane spinning with the same radius. What is the new airplane velocity?

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