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bailey_uk

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Fastest Aircraft you've seen?
« on: August 27, 2008, 07:58:32 PM »
Just noticed an MD11 doing over 555 kts FL349, dont think ive ever seen as fast as that before? Is it common?
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Re: Fastest Aircraft you've seen?
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2008, 08:18:12 PM »
Quote from: bailey_uk on August 27, 2008, 07:58:32 PM
Just noticed an MD11 doing over 555 kts FL349, dont think ive ever seen as fast as that before? Is it common?

Yes, it's not uncommon.

You're talking about groundspeed (i.e. true airspeed plus the effect of any tailwind).
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Re: Fastest Aircraft you've seen?
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2008, 08:24:44 PM »
No its not common, shame concord isnt still around.

What would it have been like to see that on radarbox ?
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Re: Fastest Aircraft you've seen?
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2008, 08:29:52 PM »
Quote from: CAM on August 28, 2008, 08:24:44 PM
No its not common, shame concord isnt still around.

What would it have been like to see that on radarbox ?

Not half as goos as seeing it in the air!!!   At an air display in my childhood doing aerobatics.

Fastest today in MyLog is D-ABTD, a Boeing 747-430M,ground speed was 587kts.
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Re: Fastest Aircraft you've seen?
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2008, 08:43:58 PM »
Sorry should have quoted Concorde shame I missed the french E off the end !!!!
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Re: Fastest Aircraft you've seen?
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2008, 08:57:53 PM »
Ah yeh of course, I forgot about the effects of a tail wind!

Would of loved to of seen concord on RB!

Only seen one once in my lifetime, walking round the parimeter fence at Heathrow, and all of a sudden a roar x10 louder than anything else we'd previously heard, looked beyond the control tower and up she went!
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