Originally Posted by jetsfan92588

i know theres got to be some engineering or physics principle that makes this possible, but i thought knots were similar to mph. google says 100 knots ~ 115 mph. how does the flight reach upwards of 500 mph even with strong tailwinds? i know its got to be possible because it sometimes takes only like 4 hours on a 2475 mile flight, but i never understood how it worked