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Old 21-01-2022, 05:48 PM
Hans Tucker (Hans)
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward View Post
I recall flying a day shuttle flight LHR to MAN in a near empty B747-400...

We would it up briefly to Mach 0.84 (about 1000kph in round numbers) at which time ATC were scrambling to hand us over to MAN approach and asked us to slow down to a slovenly 250 knots (about 460kph) while they got sorted.

Kill joys
https://youtu.be/Lg73GKm7GgI

3690 Km/Hr ... Game over man .. Game over
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