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Is the a commercial airline speed limit?

On the LAS/EWR flight we had about a 170 mph jet stream push and for a bit, we had a ground speed of about 730 mph. Pretty sure that is supersonic. And I would think a 757 traveling above the Midwest at supersonic speeds would be frowned upon. Or are sonic booms only an issue when you are supersonic air speed?

Simple answer? Ground speed is not air speed, hence the relative movement of a jet stream assisted aircraft is only relevant to the passengers inside it and to the ATCs and ground personnel who need to fit an early arriving plane into the queue for a spot at the receiving airport.

Thanks Rooster. I sort of suspected that relative speed wasn't relevant and it is just a matter of airspeed.

Eat a Dick, 88. :)

Yeah, spray, 760 is hauling ass. Almost like a ghetto Concorde. And yeah, its gotta suck for the dude driving the 767 from London to JFK thinking, if this fukking jetstream gets any worse, I'm gonna run out of gas. I would think that in cases like this, they would drop it down to an altitude where the headwinds didn't kick their ass as bad.

smackaholic wrote:I would think

That's usually where it all heads south for you.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:

smackaholic wrote:I would think

That's usually where it all heads south for you.

Sometimes.

The speed limit is whatever's posted.

No thread discussing the velocity of airborne objects is complete without this......

This all depends on whether you believe that the earth rotates or is, in fact, stationary in space at the center of the universe.

Papa Willie wrote:

Mikey wrote:This all depends on whether you believe that the earth rotates or is, in fact, stationary in space at the center of the universe.

While you're sitting on your toilet, you're still traveling at over 1.3 million mph.

Is that laden or unladen?

Sent from my plush penthouse suite in Screw Michigan's dome. It's in the District.

...African or European?

Seeing as he's sitting on the shitter, I'll assume laden, to begin with anyhoo.

the kid in the rocking chair actually looks like he has something going on upstairs, but that nappy headed fukk in ballcap, not so much.

I was told there would be no math.

"Let me get this calculation right"

Papa Willie wrote:http://www.jyi.org/issue/how-fast-are-y ... ing-still/

Virtually everyone today knowsthinks that the Earth is round and spins once every 24 hours.

ftfy, nc

sin, poptart

One more question for lefty.

What is your personal best for ground speed while driving? I will assume you've been north of 700. I have fairly regularly seen better than 700, as it seems as though pilots are always quick to point it out to their passengers. What is the highest jetstream speed you've seen? Does it ever get much past 200?

I decide to take a trip thru the Panama Canal and go radio silent for a few days and that is when you decide to discuss flying.

I will answer more in depth when I get home but I see Rooster posted and he knows the drill.

True airspeed, indicated airspeed are the main points of focus. Ground speed doesn't have much use for us. More later.

Left Seater wrote:I decide to take a trip thru the Panama Canal and go radio silent for a few days and that is when you decide to discuss flying.

I will answer more in depth when I get home but I see Rooster posted and he knows the drill.

True airspeed, indicated airspeed are the main points of focus. Ground speed doesn't have much use for us. More later.

I was wondering why you hadn't chimed in.

I decided to google it and ended up on some forum for frequent air travelers/pilots and some reported ground speeds well over 800. It seems that most were on flights from Asia to North America.

smackaholic wrote:some reported ground speeds well over 800. It seems that most were on flights from Asia to North America.

One would think that near the equator, going east-to-west, a plane could hit a ground speed a fuckton higher than that.

Dinsdale wrote:

smackaholic wrote:some reported ground speeds well over 800. It seems that most were on flights from Asia to North America.

One would think that near the equator, going east-to-west, a plane could hit a ground speed a fuckton higher than that.

Are jetstream speeds higher there?