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Old Apr 5, 2007 | 3:41 pm
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Originally Posted by CPRich
...And descending 600 feet in 3 minutes is nothing - that's only 3 feet/second.
An excellent point. At the rates of climb and descent implied by the data, it would take over an hour to reach cruise altitude - and over three hours to get back down. Hardly the sort of thing that leads to flying crockery, deployed oxygen masks, and broken bones.
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