BOEING747400 From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 319 posts, RR: 0 Posted (9 years 5 months 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2121 times:
What was the highest ever recorded airspeed/groundspeed you've ever noticed on Airshow of either an Airbus or Boeing commercial aircraft in a revenue flight? What was the equipment & registration of the aircraft and what route was it flying on?
The highest airspeed I've ever seen on Airshow was 800 mph or 1280 kph on a 744 flying eastward over the Pacific Ocean but I don't know what the actual groundspeed or the tail wind was.
AA717driver From United States of America, joined Feb 2002, 1566 posts, RR: 14 Reply 2, posted (9 years 5 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 2007 times:
I've seen 650 or so on groundspeed on the L1011 from LAX to JFK(we all had commuter flights to make...).
Also on the L1011 I've seen M .88 for awhile. We did .86 all the time.TC
LMML 14/32 From Malta, joined Jan 2001, 2559 posts, RR: 7 Reply 5, posted (9 years 5 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 1967 times:
I saw both the highest and the lowest groundspeed on the same day. It was a flight to Rome FCO from MLA some years back. Aircraft was a B732. Northbound the groundspeed was 292kts and southbond 555kts.
StarFlyer From Germany, joined Sep 2002, 987 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (9 years 5 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 1962 times:
1250 km/h (what's that in miles - roughly 800) on flight SQ285 from Singapore to Auckland on B747-412 9V-SPI for about an hour over eastern Australia through to roughly Brisbane...
MD88Captain From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 1287 posts, RR: 22 Reply 8, posted (9 years 5 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 1818 times:
I flew backwards in a Navy C130 once. The IRU's said 7 knots backwards. We were screwing around in W263 with about 160kts of headwind. And I did see .90 on an L1011 on two different occasions. Both on a descent.
411A From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 1826 posts, RR: 9 Reply 9, posted (9 years 5 months 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 1727 times:
Operated a Lockheed L1011-500 a few years ago on the route FUK-NRT, and at FL410, with an indicated mach number of .86, the groundspeed readout on the FMS was 746knots...857mph, approximately.
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