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Old Jan 13, 2009 | 5:41 pm
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Originally Posted by Tomphot
Flew ATL-BOS this morning on a 757
At the end of the flight, the pilot announced that we had just flown faster than we are ever likely to fly again on a commercial flight.

A tail wind of 186 mph had our ground speed at 738 mph.

I don't keep up with these things - I guess that's really fast?
Yeah, on the redeye on December 23rd from SAN to ATL, we did it in 3 hours and 14 minutes in the air. Over 100 mph tail wind. That was ridiculous.

It was actually not a good thing. Too short to really get any sleep.
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