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90 km/h, for those who use metric in sane ways
Or around 150,000 furlongs per fortnight
Uh is it not 60? Am I having a stroke?
60 km/h = 60 kilometers in 60 minutes = 1 kilometer in 1 minute
And assuming the fundamentals of mathematics haven't actually changed, that is ungodly slow for pretty much any modern jet aircraft.....
Edit: WHY DOES THE HEADLINE SAY THAT
That is correct. But the headline also says "more than", making it even more useless.
From the article:
92.46 km/h
But still, that’s indeed very slow for an aircraft like that. I’m sure they just worded it that way because it sounds faster.
90kph is very slow for a flight speed, but stupidly fast for a decent speed. That is about half the speed of a skydiver free falling. That, added on to the airspeed, would be a very bad situation for any plane.
Wtf abc. Australia uses metric, we shouldn't have any issues using metric...
What’s that in fast food drive-through lengths?
So basically a suicide crash…
Soldier of conscience.
For an aircraft with a typical airspeed of, what, 500 km/h?