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0 pointsloeg5d ago0 comments

The Indian Ocean is both larger and has significantly less traffic than the Mediterranean. And a 777 is about 16x faster than a carrier.

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> And a 777 is about 16x faster than a carrier.

Surely that's missing a 0 or are carriers really that fast?

Aircraft carrier speed... 33 knots or about 35mph[1]

Boeing 777 speed 554mph[2]

So about 16x!

ray__5d ago

Honestly pretty crazy, although that must be the max speed. The carrier was going about 10 mph in this case (per Strava).

Commercial airliners are sub mach1. The Charles de Gaulle is reported to go at least 27 knots at top speed.

27*16=432, a 777 goes 510-520 knots.

So maybe more like 18-19x.

For the carriers it is at least as the true top speed is classified.

loegOP5d ago

16x, 20x -- it's about the right order of magnitude.

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