I have tasted speed, and I like it

Ghery said:
I remember riding as self-loading cargo on a pressurized mailing tube across the Pacific one time. The indicated airspeed was 550 MPH and the tail wind at altitude was 200 MPH. If ground speed had been airspeed (darn it, it wasn't!!!) we would have been supersonic. Oh well...
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Had a red eye west to east (LAX - IAD) one night. United, back when you could listen to the cockpit. They pulled it back to Mach 0.7 something, and we were still 45 minutes early.
 
Pinecone said:
Had a red eye west to east (LAX - IAD) one night. United, back when you could listen to the cockpit. They pulled it back to Mach 0.7 something, and we were still 45 minutes early.
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On another trans-pac flight (Tokyo to San Fransisco this time) we arrived at SFO so early that we had to wait on board the aircraft for passport control to open for the day. So much for being early due to a great tail wind.
 
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