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Old Jan 6, 2016 | 1:29 am
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Originally Posted by BotB
Interesting article in the economist about turbulence, the types, severity levels and the revelation that even in severe turbulence the plane moves only 30m (rather than the perceived thousands of feet)...

30 meters within ~ 1 second means a speed of almost 110 kph. That is quite a severe force, being accelerated to and stopped again from within a second.
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