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Dec 12, 2009 | 9:55 am

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flyinbob

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I get that from time to time on flights from HKG to SFO. You can get tailwinds well over 150 mph, especially over the eastern part of the Pacific. A couple of times we have arrived in SFO more than 2 hours early.

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