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Old Mar 10, 2017 | 2:16 am
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I always assumed that with a high tailwind the ground speed would be higher, as the air speed would always be the same irrelevant of winds.

Some time ago on a KLM 737-700 we surpassed 1000km/h at FL390 which I thought was cool. Don't think I ever flew that high or fast short haul since. It cut quite some travel time off the AMS-ATH flight too!
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