Chasing the sunset question.

[cocheese 0]

If it's 3000 miles from New York to California. And the time difference is 3 hours, then to see a 3 hour sunset you must fly in a plane at about 1000mph.

Is this correct?

How fast at the equator? same speed as the earth?
Mid season, not equinox.

Have any of you ever done this?

[cocheese 0]

answer = 1038 mph at the equator.

Now what planes will fly this fast and where can i ride one?

[n2skdvn 0]

plane= concorde. unfortunately it dosent fly anymore.

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[cocheese 0]

Anyone here ever go faster than a commercial jet (500-600mph) ?

Either have I.

[BillyVance 35]

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plane= concorde. unfortunately it dosent fly anymore.

And even if the concorde was still flying, it wouldn't be allowed to fly supersonic over land. Not unless you want all your windows busted when it flies over your house....

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[PhreeZone 20]

It can fly super sonic overland, It just can not cross the sonic threshold over land. They once were doing London - LAX runs on the Concorde. Also the Blackbird hold the speed records for LA-NYC and you better believe it was supersonic the whole time.

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[pilotdave 0]

It's easy to go faster than a commercial jet... fly in one and walk toward the front!
Dave

[snowslider 0]

There's some amazing facts about the SR-71 aka Blackbird here.


http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/srqt~1.htm