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British Airways Boeing 747 Hits a Record 825 MPH During NYC-London Trip
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| 9 Feb 2020
| CALEB JACOBS
Posted on 02/09/2020 3:27:05 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: plsvn; PAR35
Apparently Caleb Jacobs is ignorant of the relationship between minutes and hours.
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posted on
02/09/2020 6:39:35 PM PST
by
A strike
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To: Spktyr
Yes, I believe you are right.
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posted on
02/09/2020 6:42:57 PM PST
by
VeniVidiVici
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Meantime the flight going the opposite direction is 3 a little late, but expected to arrive Tuesday afternoon.
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posted on
02/09/2020 7:00:03 PM PST
by
cookcounty
(Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
To: A strike
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posted on
02/09/2020 7:03:26 PM PST
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Robert A Cook PE
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To: justme4now
A truly wonderful vignette about the penultimate comm.
Did you miss John GlennUSMC’s, “LA, I’m showing 17,500+. confirm.” ?
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posted on
02/09/2020 7:20:59 PM PST
by
A strike
( Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: Robert A Cook PE
90 North does not require a Longitude.
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posted on
02/09/2020 7:22:54 PM PST
by
A strike
( Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: DUMBGRUNT
Math-challenged author Caleb Jacobs wrote that the plane made “New York to London in just four hours and 56 minutes.”
Then, just a little later, he explained that the plane made it in “just over four hours.”
To: Redcitizen
Rode my first 747 from Chicago to Anchorage, then on to Tokyo. That was in October 1976. What a wonderful trip. The coolest thing of all is that the flight must have been a back-haul and they needed the plane in Tokyo, because it was 95% empty! I think every paying passenger had a dedicated stewardess as well as an entire row to stretch out in. Only time that has happened and I’ll never forget it!
To: hanamizu
Was that event a long while past? There are not many Storches still airworthy. Have you ever seen Mike Patey’s DRACO? He stuffed a PT-6 into a WILGA 2000 and it could perform like that!
To: PAR35
Of course, the most likely explanation is Caleb cannot solve 2 + 2, so he went into journalism to avoid the hard math.
To: hanamizu
I'd never heard of that aircraft. The Wiki writeup on the
Fieseler Fi 156 (Storch). Fascinating aircraft, especially for having been designed in 1935.
To: DUMBGRUNT
Yeah, but can it do the Kessel run in slightly over 12 parsecs?
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posted on
02/09/2020 7:40:21 PM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
To: Alas Babylon!
but can it do the Kessel run in slightly over 12 parsecs?
Don’t want to push that one too close and be consumed by a black hole?
To: punchamullah
Was that event a long while past?
Well, I was in college so it would have been in the late 60s, so, yeah, I guess it was a long while past. I don’t know what the occasion wasmaybe an air show. My roommate was a pilot and had a Piper Cub, so the airport became a familiar place.
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posted on
02/09/2020 8:05:25 PM PST
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hanamizu
To: Tucker39; rktman
Betting the return was a tad slower.✈🚣
With a strong headwind in an old Aeronca you can turn into the wind and hover, or even move backwards.
Was thinking the same, must have been hell on those flights going westward, especially from the lower latitudes, say from Rome or Athens.
As for "flying backwards," I have somewhere in my archives an article from c. 1912 of a Wright Bros exhibition over Coney Island in which the planes were seen moving backwards while flying into a headwind that was faster than the planes.
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posted on
02/09/2020 8:49:30 PM PST
by
nicollo
(I said no!)
To: A strike
90 North does not require a Longitude.
Any higher and it will require a declination!
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posted on
02/09/2020 11:00:47 PM PST
by
apostoli
("When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination." - Sowel)
To: DUMBGRUNT
So, they did a subsonic supersonic run....
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posted on
02/10/2020 4:47:13 AM PST
by
trebb
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To: DUMBGRUNT
British Airways call sign is Speedbird. Not a joke, that really is their call sign.
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posted on
02/10/2020 5:21:45 AM PST
by
ops33
(SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
To: aumrl
ONE HECKOFASTORM hitting Isles and west Europe. I live near Stuttgart, Germany. We've had a steady 30 mph wind since last night. Trees down and I keep having to check and make sure my grill doesn't end up in my pond, again.
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posted on
02/10/2020 6:18:13 AM PST
by
drop 50 and fire for effect
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To: trebb
So, they did a subsonic supersonic run....
and still not hypersonic.
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