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Interesting. I never gave it much thought at the time, but yesterday evening I was on a flight from Melbourne to Brisbane. There were gale force winds in Victoria and we must have had quite a tailwind because for a while the flight track screen was showing us travelling at 1016 km/h (Altitude = 12,000 m).
Later in the flight we had a bit of turbulence as the Captain said we were coming out of the high speed winds and the speed some time later had dropped to about 880 km/h, which I believe is about the cruising speed for a B737.
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