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Supersonic A380?
Yesterday while viewing the Live Flight Tracker website, I noticed a, Airbus 380 flying out of Houston at 35,000 feet at 678 mph. Is this supersonic or is the speed shown in knots?
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Yeah - imagine the energy that would be needed to push the A380 through the sound barrier!
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Re: Supersonic A380?
StTim wrote:Yeah - imagine the energy that would be needed to push the A380 through the sound barrier!
Probably just a little bit more than the DC-8 that did so in the sixties....honestly though I have no idea.
Last edited by Dominion301 on Wed Jan 30, 2019 1:41 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Supersonic A380?
That is ground speed. If it has nice tail winds, it is not at all unusual. You sometimes even catch 800mph in the jet stream. Of course, this is ground speed. They are still doing .82 to .85 Mach, Otherwise the aircraft would disintegrate.
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Re: Supersonic A380?
CessnaNephew wrote:Yesterday while viewing the Live Flight Tracker website, I noticed a, Airbus 380 flying out of Houston at 35,000 feet at 678 mph. Is this supersonic or is the speed shown in knots?
fpetrutiu wrote:Otherwise the aircraft would disintegrate.
This is how the A380 looked like after this flight:
A380-800 MSN 5000 'PAMELA' [Static Test airframe] remains. by A380spotter ..48% EU, auf Flickr....
sorry, couldn't resist
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