Originally Posted by
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Resting pilot sitting next to me told me it was the longest TLV-EWR flight he has ever done with headwinds at some point reaching 1900 miles an hour.
This would make a good math question
That is a windspeed of 850 m/s
A typical airplane travels at about 250 m/s
a) If an airplane A leaves TLV at noon traveling west at 250m/s, and encounters headwinds of 850m/s. How fast does the airplane fly?
b) At what time will the airplane reach EWR?
Answers:
a) -600m/s
b) Quarter to never.