Isn’t that above Mach 1?
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On March 31, 1980 (the 4th Full Moon of 1980, 2nd Blue Moon) I had to accompany a Medevac from Prudhoe Bay to Anchorage, AK. Poor patient had a crushed chest. We were flying in an ERA Aviation Lear 25 that had been modified so it could load basket stretchers. It is 625 air miles to Anchorage from Prudhoe and normally takes 75 minutes. It was a gorgeous clear night, smooth flying, and Mt. McKinley was beautiful in the moonlight. At 45 minutes into the flight I could see the lights of Anchorage through the windscreen. I went forward and asked Oly the pilot how we got here so quickly. “Oh, we’ve got a bit of a tailwind. Go aft and make sure everything is strapped down because its going to get bumpy on the way in.” We passed through a thin wispy layer of cloud and the rodeo was on. After two severe negative G downdrafts Oly dove for the deck and I could see the whitecaps of Cook Inlet out the starboard cabin windows as we approached. We were so low we had to climb to land at Anchorage and had traveled 625 miles in 59 minutes. We had passed out of the jet stream into the winter “wind event” that was buffeting the airport with 125 mph crosswinds. If I never fly in anything like that again I’m OK with it.
In late 60 early 70’s I ustah go from Opa Locka to Gran Turk in an HU16E(goat) think it only took us about 5 hours plus ?
The C123 was neck breaking took about 4
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I’m not sure why this is news.
When I came back from visiting Asia, the jet stream propelled the plane to 810 or 815 mph ground speed. I knew because I like to watch the flight map on the in-flight entertainment. It was pretty awesome to know we were traveling so fast but not, I think, newsworthy.
Is that faster than a fully laden swallow?
You've truly mangled it.
The speed of sound in the air is about 767 mph depending on temperature. As this aircraft exceeded it over Pennsylvania, how come there were no reports of sonic booms in the news?
However, Sonic booms due to large supersonic aircraft can be particularly loud and may cause minor damage to some structures. This is why commercial supersonic flight over the US and Europe has been banned since 1973. The speed can only be attained while over large bodies of water. One of the main reasons the SST was retired besides expense of being a play toy for the rich that couldn’t pay for itself. It took almost 15,000 gallons of fuel just to reach altitude and not when the aircraft was supersonic as advertised. And even when it was flying supersonic is was using almost 6800 gallons an hour. That’s a lot of hay for that thoroughbred for the hype.
Furthermore, jet streams cause turbulence. It’s a result of the vertical and horizontal wind shear associated with jet streams, and pilots can’t see it coming because it isn’t associated with a weather pattern. To avoid turbulence pilots will fly to higher or lower altitudes to get beneath or above the jet stream they are experiencing.
For moderate or extreme turbulence, pilots are trained to slow the aircraft down to the appropriate “maneuvering speed” for the aircraft’s current weight. This protects the aircraft in that if it encounters extreme turbulence, the aircraft wings will essentially “stall” before the aircraft is damaged. This simply is a design feature that protects the aircraft’s structure. As this is the case, the pilots put the aircraft and its passengers in a dangerous situation.
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Snowstorm Reaches 3 Feet Due To Snow
Rod Serling was here.
We were on a flight Feb 16 from San Diego to Atlanta that got into that same tail wind and hit 700mph, 3 hours cross country to Atlanta on a Delta 767-300.