Excluding military exp, what’s y’all’s personal speed records?

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Altec5499@reddit

I’ve driven faster in my car than the c152 I cruise in with a strong tailwind. Lawnmower with wings

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SashaGreyjoy-@reddit

It's about 120 mph slower than the world record lol

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Background-Cricket-@reddit

I thought the world record was like 800+ mph when that guy jumped from that balloon like 15 years ago

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BUTTER_MY_NONOHOLE@reddit

Alan Eustace. Nice to see it being mentioned. It was only just over 10 years ago ;)

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Cats155@reddit

That seems hard to believe but I know better than to doubt human ability.

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scubasky@reddit

I see your 210 and raise you 254. Recorded by by Neptune on my wrist and my vigil AAD.

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RobotnikOne@reddit

311kmh on both wheels 250ish on one(wasn’t so focused on the speedo oddly)

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SpillinThaTea@reddit

677 across the ground. Newark to Munich going through the remnants of a hurricane. Didn’t sleep a wink but in typical MUC fashion the plane was able to pull right into a gate instead of waiting.

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Battery4471@reddit

Wait it's common to wait at other airports? Never experienced that (as a passenger) but I don't fly that much

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BUTTER_MY_NONOHOLE@reddit

Yes, especially when you catch a great tailwind and show up early

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Sea2Chi@reddit

I landed 20 minutes early a couple weeks ago at O'Hare. We ended up sitting on the ramp for 20 minutes waiting for the gate to clear.

I mean, I got to use my phone which was nice, but it takes some of the joy out of getting there early when you still get off the plane at the same time.

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durallymax@reddit

The ORD penalty box sucks. Get in early on an RJ? Penalty box. Get in late on an RJ? Penalty box.

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Battery4471@reddit

Wow...

And Burning loads of fuel for nothing

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EvelcyclopS@reddit

Some airports are horrific for it. Heathrow comes to mind first.

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Oh I’d say that’s because of T5 and British Airways’ shitty ground handling. Doha is even worse, you taxi and get off at a stand that is miles away from the terminal, you wait 15+m plus for the buses to arrive, then deboard, then the buses drive extremely slowly because they are stuck behind a slower vehicle resulting in a 10+m drive, then you can’t get off the bus yet because there are only 2 doors and there are 3 buses in front of you, and when you finally step foot into the terminal if you are transiting you need to go through security. I hate Doha with a passion.

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EvelcyclopS@reddit

It’s because there isn’t enough runway capacity. Nothing to do with BA

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Axe_Care_By_Eugene@reddit

CDG dit bonjour

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teastain@reddit

AirTransat parks out on the ramp at 3, beside the Concorde!!!

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EvelcyclopS@reddit

I was thinking this too

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snonsig@reddit

Flying MUC LHR and back was certainly an interesting contrast

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Battery4471@reddit

Well, England.

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jello_sweaters@reddit

Toronto's not great, but you rarely wait very long.

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cafe_brutale@reddit

True but at least with Heathrow you know what you're in for. The system they have is always the same and it handles extremely well at least in my experience. I'd rather have that than some other big airports where the intentions of the ATC can be quite a mystery.

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EvelcyclopS@reddit

When I fly through Heathrow, I know I’m in for:

sitting at the apron waiting 25 minutes at the stand for a place in the queue to take off.
the worlds slowest taxi
4 loops of holding waiting for clearance to enter the pattern
waiting on the apron for a stand

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auxilary@reddit

i thought munich utilized the remote gates with busses for the passengers on US arriving flights?

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SpillinThaTea@reddit

Maybe sometimes but none of the 4 times I’ve flow into Munich

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rob_s_458@reddit

Who's done negative groundspeed? When the headwind is greater than your airspeed

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acidreducer@reddit

Technically you can’t go negative, cause you’re still moving over the ground. But I have gone backwards!

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cafe_brutale@reddit

Thank god I'm not the only one. It always irks me bad when people talk about negative ground speed. There is no such thing.

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Iron_physik@reddit

There is depending on your frame of reference

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cafe_brutale@reddit

Then you'd be talking about velocity. Understand that it is impossible to have negative ground speed in an aircraft. You're just moving in the other direction with the exact same POSITIVE ground speed.

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unsuspicious_raven@reddit

Fair, but come on dude

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acidreducer@reddit

But what I’m saying is the gps will never say -knots. Yeah I get the semantics but anyone who says they’ve seen - isn’t telling the truth.

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_esci@reddit

its not semantics. in a plane you have a direction in which those speed should apply to get the effect of flying.
flying sidewards? you wont fly long? backwards? same? forward is the way to go. so its a indicator if you move in the right direction.

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cafe_brutale@reddit

Yeah I know it's nitpicking.

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turtle_excluder@reddit

If your ground speed is negative you'd have to be flying over a complex manifold... pretty bad navigation to end up there imo

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fly72j@reddit

I’ve done negative 15kts ground speed in a C150, I went almost full throttle with 40° flaps to sit at near stall speed with a strong headwind lol

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unsuspicious_raven@reddit

Man I miss flying that slow little bastard

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fly72j@reddit

Yeah same, it was too much fun. Show as molasses, redline all the time, but the handling was like no other

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unsuspicious_raven@reddit

Lot of memories doing all my XCs at just below redline squeaking along at 95 😂

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fly72j@reddit

Haha sounds about right. Which variant did you fly? I got about 80 hours in that 150G.

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unsuspicious_raven@reddit

It was a regular 152, I flew a '74(pretty sure) 150 a little bit, 40° of flaps is absolutely hilarious for that it just drops like a rock

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fly72j@reddit

Nice nice. I wish the 172s had 40, it was so useful

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My_useless_alt@reddit

At what point do you just find an airport and attempt a vertical landing for the fun of it?

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fly72j@reddit

If it were safe I would have tried it. But I did that with around an estimated 50kt headwind at 7000MSL, the wind at my base airport was something like 15 gusting 25. Even if it was 50 on the ground for a vertical landing, it’s not worth the risk of the wind slowing suddenly and then wham you have no lift.

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Pilot-Louy@reddit

I’ve done negative 30kts in a PA18-180 Banner Tow.

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torsten_dev@reddit

Isn't that the dream when towing?

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fightersweekly@reddit

No, because then you start to worry about making it back with fuel left 🤣

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torsten_dev@reddit

Just land on an airport in the other direction.

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blackteashirt@reddit

You're basically hot air ballooning at that point, did you chuck out some sand bags?

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TheVoicesSpeakToMe@reddit

I’ve flown backwards in a helicopter, does that count?

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mconrad382@reddit

I have a video of the G1000 and the ATC audio clip of me doing -3kts. Freaked out NY approach lol I think the quote was “are you guys ok? We show your ground speed as zero…”

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slyskyflyby@reddit

Negative ground speed is not possible. I've flown backward but my ground speed was still positive.

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unsuspicious_raven@reddit

I did -4 in a DA40 a couple months ago. We had a ridiculous, but steady wind at altitude so I put it into slow flight to see if I could do it and it sure did

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ihedenius@reddit

K8 glider, windy day. Upwind of field advisable.

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bacondesign@reddit

I did vertical landing in a glider. Feels awesome (except when you worry you'll reach the airport as you are close to your max speed already and it doesn't want to get any closer).

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Yellowtelephone1@reddit

I did 16kn backwards at 46kn airspeed in a Grob 103 Glider

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CaptValentine@reddit

-10 knots in a Seminole, -15 in an archer.

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Seattle_gldr_rdr@reddit

Landing backwards is a common punishment for inexperienced or cavalier paraglider pilots

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Wonderful_Ad_4344@reddit

Flying backwards blew my mind. So cool

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Back2thehold@reddit

I watched 18 wheelers pass me 3k feet below.

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redvariation@reddit

Us, too. Westbound over I-10 near the continental divide (New Mexico). About 60kts.

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Prestigious-Arm6630@reddit

Maybe Mach .79 in a E175

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JJohnston015@reddit

200mph ground speed in a Beech Debonair. 155mph ground speed in a Subaru WRX STi.

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Aggie-br@reddit

527TAS - 710GS

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mat101010@reddit

1,500 (ish). I did a 2 hour joyride in a MiG 25. Speed was just under Mach 2 and went up to 69,000 ft.

Let’s see how the peanut gallery feels about this gray area submission.

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Phantom_sidewinder@reddit

You have pics?

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unsuspicious_raven@reddit

I mean I guess so lol. That's fuckin awesome though

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ewerdna@reddit

I feel good about it, but how did your wallet feel?

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RedneckMtnHermit@reddit

He paid before, so the wallet was super light.

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mat101010@reddit

The going rate at the time was $10,000 USD per hour. That's a great bargain by today's standards as the fuel alone would be around $50k per hour. My ride less than official and I don't know what, if anything, was paid. Here is some Q and A on my flight from a while back.

r/flying/comments/swyz5c/what_are_the_highest_and_lowest_hourly_rates/hxpng6h/

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poisonandtheremedy@reddit

That was fantastic. I appreciate (coming from someone who does the same) your context links sprinkled throughout.

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mat101010@reddit

After the flight, I tried to find out more about the navigation system built into the MiG-25 -- It was designed as a high-speed interceptor, after all. While I was not fluent in Russian, it looked like a 1990s-era ATM head unit (yes, cash machine screen + 8 buttons) repurposed as an MFD. It had few of the functions I would consider mission critical. I don't think it even provided fuel quantity readouts. Wild.

I learned that the original flight computer was something like you'd see in Apollo rocket movies. A clunky E-6B computer that has access to system errors and position. There are quotes from early MiG-25 pilots saying 'Your life expectancy drops from 70 years to 70 minutes every time you take off. You won't live long if you get lost while flying 50 kilometers every minute.'

O.o

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LHBx@reddit

You have lived a dream my friend, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t very very jealous!

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ChoochieReturns@reddit

Stopped reading after you said the Foxbat has no sex appeal. Detestable take.

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80hdis4me@reddit

Very interesting. You got to do it at no cost right? Right place at the right time I’d definitely say.

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Fourteen_Sticks@reddit

663 tonight while descending through FL340. We were only doing .01 Mach faster than our normal cruise speed, so not like we bumped it up to Mmo to get it.

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Fourteen_Sticks@reddit

Hello fellow G280 driver

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Fourteen_Sticks@reddit

Just hit 663 tonight on descent through FL340. Were only doing .01 Mach faster than our normal cruise speed, so not like we were intentionally speeding up to get it.

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Notonfoodstamps@reddit

~160mph on the I-15 in Nevada

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Far_Dragonfruit_1829@reddit

5 kph, but it was in Concorde 001. Trip was all of 200 meters.

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RaybeartADunEidann@reddit

I flew Concorde as a passenger, Mach 2.2 and a Starfighter, 1.9

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drowninginidiots@reddit

172 kts GS, in a bell 407 helicopter.

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DJ-dicknose@reddit

27 seconds.

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Jmersh@reddit

215 knots in an Extra 300L

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El_mochilero@reddit

Did .22 Mach on a GSXR 600

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ChairDippedInGold@reddit

Same! 275 kmh and still had 1k rpm before limiter

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spyderman720@reddit

I've done about .17 Mach on a snowmobile a few times.

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Murpet@reddit

Hit .98 for a few seconds in a Heavy.

It was not intentional. It was not pleasant.

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Moose-bay@reddit

GS of 685 in level flight 698 when we started to go downhill. CRJ-200 with the jet stream pushing us hard. It’s been 20 years and I am still salty I couldn’t get those two knots

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segelflugzeugdriver@reddit

I did 135 GS in a Taylorcraft once. Felt like lights peed watching the ground pass beneath me. The way home was less fun.

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Bernhard174@reddit

261 knots indicated (Mooney m20j)

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Crateapa@reddit

Holy crap. I've had GS up to 213 in an M20J but I don't remember the IAS.

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mconrad382@reddit

I think I hold the record for a Caravan on floats at 268kts. The falcon 900 I’ve seen 630kts. Crazy one was the guy I fly with has pictures of him doing 680 in an excel lmao

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nimbusgb@reddit

325 kph. GS. But that was in my sailplane with a 70 kph breeze up the backside!

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SnowDin556@reddit

JFK to Savannah. We we’re going executing what they called over the airways an “escape route where we fly at 650 knots at 8,000 ft til we got the plane behind the storm. Played with the up-wind opportunities which did a 360 and we ended up just fine. I don’t know our top speed but I know our plane was going fast. I fly a lot. I had the Ricky Bobby feeling of, “we’re going fast now cal!”

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FlydirectMoxie@reddit

.88 in a 727. Last leg of a three-day.

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funkyzeit12@reddit

650 ground. 164kt tail at F330. CYXT to CYYC. Embraer 550

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Alansmithee69@reddit

As a passenger? Mach 2, twice.

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Outside_Birthday_901@reddit

145 over the ground in a PA28... that was with a 35kt tailwind too 🫠

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cardboardbox25@reddit

120 C172

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chasepsu@reddit

I hit 150GS yesterday with only 110IAS, but yeah 120IAS is my max in the C172.

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Automaticman01@reddit

Did you ask Center for a ground speed check?

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corvus66a@reddit

When I red this I knew we are a Team

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blackteashirt@reddit

We were somewhere over Barstow when the drugs began to take hold.

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teastain@reddit

Maintaining a constant speed is the key to good gas mileage. I don't know why this seemed important at this time.

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clattygobshite@reddit

I feel a bit lightheaded. Maybe you should fly.

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PotentialMidnight325@reddit

Oooover the ground.

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mattfox27@reddit

This guy fly's

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AnArmChairAnalyst@reddit

Danger Zone intensifies

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cardboardbox25@reddit

Highway to... the danger zoneeeee!

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Feckmumblerap@reddit

I feel the need…the need for speed😎

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Timewaster50455@reddit

Same here, put her in a bit too steep of a dive during an early lesson.

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ReadyCav@reddit

I did the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs.

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felinefluffycloud@reddit

What's the ground speed?

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ReadyCav@reddit

671,000,000 MPH

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Sentinel_2539@reddit

[Comment about parsec being a unit of distance]

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gnartato@reddit

Yeah but when your aircraft is capable of doing the theoretical speed limit of the universe the only thing you can improve upon is the distance between you and your destination. Whether this refers to more efficient navigation or something like "worm holes" is up to your imagination, but the statement makes sense given light speed as a limiting factor.

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NikkoJT@reddit

Star Wars spacecraft are absolutely not limited to lightspeed though. Obviously they're limited to "speed of plot" rather than a specific defined speed, but it must be faster than light (and by a lot) otherwise it would take years to travel between systems.

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jello_sweaters@reddit

Yeah, wasn't this Han bragging about he and his ship being so good that they were able to take a straighter route through a dangerous part of space, than anyone else is capable of?

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DCS_Sport@reddit

684 in a G650… was scootin along pretty good

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stuntin102@reddit

nyc to london a few years ago as a pax in a global 6000 we did 662 at one point across the water riding a pretty nice tailwind. i wonder if i’ve gone faster other times going east but was just never informed or slept through it.

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Peregrine7710@reddit

Okay but can we talk about the G6 NYC to London?

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CAVU1331@reddit

https://youtu.be/w4s6H4ku6ZY?si=Mgoe8gBlCNhz3nk7

It’s a Global, not a Gulfstream

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lopedopenope@reddit

I was a freshmen in college when that song came out and this one kid that lived a few rooms away loved to point out that the plane in the video isn’t a G6 lol. I checked and I guess it’s a G4.

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CAVU1331@reddit

It’s funny because there was going to be a G6, but then Gulfstream changed their nomenclature and it became the G600

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LikesBlueberriesALot@reddit

TIL - they’re talking about an airplane and not a Pontiac G6?

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lopedopenope@reddit

Yea haha

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Peregrine7710@reddit

Ah, thanks for the correction. Although I’d still go for the ride :)

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bmpenn@reddit

.9 citation x

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snailmale7@reddit

146.7Knots in a Mooney M20

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wrongwayup@reddit

1200km/hr over the ground according to the IFE map in the back of an AC A320 with a rockin' winter tailwind

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ywgflyer@reddit

701kts.

777 east of Japan on the way back to North America.

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TackleMySpackle@reddit

700 something ground speed. NRT to LAX, caught a fantastic tailwind on a 777 with GE90’s. I remember arriving so early they didn’t have anywhere for us to park.

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Pr1malr8@reddit

Currently I’m traveling roughly 515,200knots per hr.

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ttystikk@reddit

And so are the rest of us.

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cardboardbox25@reddit

I'm just doing it better

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whistlepig-@reddit

I hit 28 mph on a flat course on my TT bike last fall. Not aviation related, or military, but still impressive. Right?

Ok, I’m out.

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PressThePickleButton@reddit

170kt GS in a DA20 🥴

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Clark_W_Griswold-Jr@reddit

Felt like I was flying when I did 140 on a Yamaha YZF600R, DTC? 😆

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RedneckMtnHermit@reddit

You mean to tell me there isn't a single astronaut willing to flex on this post???

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steelmanfallacy@reddit

My friend's dad was a Shuttle pilot...

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AlphaIOmega@reddit

I was on one of those flights from DC to Europe last spring that was recorded going between 700 and 800mph.

Does that count? We made DC to Amsterdam in like 6 hours. It was fucking awesome.

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john_le_carre@reddit

I’m one of those freaks who can usually sleep on a red eye. I hate it when they’re fast going eastbound!

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lopedopenope@reddit

I took two Xanax on a flight from NYC to Amsterdam and spent the whole flight asleep with my head and arms on the tray table. It was great but now that I’m older I would be sore if I did that again.

Afterwards my brother told me the he heard the flight attendants refer to me as that sleeping guy haha. No drinks or bathroom break for me because I didn’t wake up once.

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slyskyflyby@reddit

Excluding military? Why am I being discriminated against? I fly a slow military jet. We only cruise at Mach .78!

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jello_sweaters@reddit

I was going to say, most military pilots are subject to the same limits as the rest of us.

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Random61504@reddit

Still faster than my cruise! 120kts. Not military.

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ParsnipRelevant3644@reddit

I can't compete, I have never taken speed.

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No_Information_7548@reddit

Why exclude military? I wanna hear some fun stories lol

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AFrozen_1@reddit

Insert SR-71 LA speed story here

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Cool-Acanthaceae8968@reddit

Lie. Same with Brian Shul’s claim of Mach 3.5. A simple measurement of the angle of the SR-71 inlet cone and basic math tells you it’s impossible.

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boredatwork8866@reddit

Basic math…

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lopedopenope@reddit

A simple measurement of the circumference of his ah noose is all you need to tell you Borat was flying that day

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Former_Mix_6969@reddit

Ok Sheldon

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Former_Mix_6969@reddit

The stories:

Classified

Lies

Classified

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ryanturner328@reddit

.99 in a 738 and 744. 742 i've got .95

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AdoptedEgg@reddit

120 in a Duo Discus over bum fuck nowhere in Australia. Gear was down too and we were still climbing in the thermal.

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MUMBAI_MAN@reddit

Mach 2 on Concorde when I was 1 year old

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Captain_Billy@reddit

.92 mach

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beechbe20@reddit

404 in a King Air 200, and 398 in a Beech 1900.

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Peardc10@reddit

725 knots at FL370, over eastern Canada heading to Gander for tech stop then onto UK in a Citation 10. We had over 200+ tailwind. Not bad, converted to mph = 832mph.

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DisregardLogan@reddit

114~ in a C150

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Acc3ssViolation@reddit

Got a pic showing 982 km/h on a 777 from LA to Amsterdam, we may have peaked a bit above that at some point

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wil9212@reddit

Yesterday was a good one for speed records. Winds were around 160 in the mid 30s

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raydome1@reddit

Recently did sub-100kts ground speed in an empty 737. Felt like we were walking it onto the runway.

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GandalFarCough@reddit

DHC-8 about 310kts ground speed… during descent….

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Individual_Tooth_752@reddit

M.86 with direct tail wind of 220kts+ over Pacific Ocean👍

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AviationJax1234@reddit

152kts in a 172. Tailwind

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MagicChemist@reddit

700+ ICN to SFO maybe 10 years or so ago. We arrived so early they couldn’t let us off the plane for over an hour because customs didn’t have any employees at the airport yet.

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rtwpsom2@reddit

I did 140 in a 2007 Corvette convertible.

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dr4gonr1der@reddit

Mach 2. Concorde

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acidreducer@reddit

Not to quite literally one up you, but I hit 651 today with 167 on the tail. Was pretty stoked

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FMC_Speed@reddit

For me is 612 knots Ground Speed, which is super sonic if it was TAS, not bad for a 737

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aa599@reddit

Since you didn't say maximum speed record, I got my flexwing microlight (stall speed in the 30s) to -10mph groundspeed.

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scottydg@reddit

I don't remember the exact numbers, but it was a Virgin America flight 12 or so years ago. Coming from SEA, delayed an hour or so due to fog at SFO, original takeoff time late evening or so. They must have punched it with a tailwind, that A320 hit over 700mph ground speed on the flight tracker and we weren't too late arriving at the gate. I remember looking at the display and thinking it was a notably high ground speed. I've taken this flight a lot, they usually schedule it for 2 hours now, used to be 1:45, and average in air time is about 1:35 or so, but we made it from SEA to SFO in an hour and change, extremely fast for that route.

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blackteashirt@reddit

320 kilometers per hour (199 miles per hour) on the route from Nantes to Saint-Nazaire, France - TGV.

But I also walked up the aisle so technically doing 324kmh.

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DankeSebVettel@reddit

MPH. I don’t fly.

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clearingmyprop@reddit

370 GS going downhill in a PC-12 with about 100 knots on the tail

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closethegatealittle@reddit

810-ish in the back of a 787 headed from Tokyo to LA. If only that kept up through the trip!

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lolcutler@reddit

I have seen just shy of 300 in a cessna ttx and 440 in a tbm940

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ovenproofjet@reddit

140kts, Duo Discus. Who needs engines

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Tomcat848484@reddit

635 GS yesterday in a 321, 153 knots of wind.

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SpaceXmars@reddit

Idk.. maybe around 160?

Got to fly in an experimental 2 seater once, did some sweet backflips and corkscrews!

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pavehawkfavehawk@reddit

Good thing you didn’t excluded us military types. Otherwise you’d all be in awe of my 200kts ground speed in the Pavehawk

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MyDixieWreckedToo@reddit

Not bad in the mighty little 280 🤙

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BornWalrus8557@reddit

Collins Fusiin made to look like Honeywell, that plane is a quirky high performer.

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janxus@reddit

About as fast as a king air with extended range tanks and modified landing gear. Maybe .4 Mach?

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weaselkeeper@reddit

Oshkosh 1995, won Grand Champion on a B-25 and parked next to the Concord at show center, they were charging for Mach rides over lake Michigan so I traded them a ride.

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BornWalrus8557@reddit

Is that a G280 cockpit photo?

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Pilyoz@reddit

As a German GA pilot it’s about the same with my car as with my plane. Around 200mph/320kmh

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star744jets@reddit

M.95 during test flight : Boeing 747-800

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VulgarButFluent@reddit

Had a guy tow me real fast once while i minded the brakes...

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Landoof-Ladig@reddit

708 GS - MD11 with 220 kts Tailwind

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v4vangelder@reddit

Irrelevant but I know a 280 when I see one.

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washingtonpablo@reddit

Massive tailwind on my ride from TPE to JFK. Was watching the flight map the whole time and saw we hit about 780mph groundspeed. Afaik that’s the fastest I’ve ever traveled

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uskrums@reddit

676 doing Mach .79…do the math

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VarmKartoffelsalat@reddit

Mach to TAS/GS depends on your altitude....

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Cool-Acanthaceae8968@reddit

And tail wind, and temperature.

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fuck_r-e-d-d-i-t@reddit

Mooney, around 25-30 years ago: Around 450 knots GS @ FL25, 225ish true. Big turbo 6 cylinder and oxygen masks.

We were laughing our asses off pretending to be a contender.

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Cool-Acanthaceae8968@reddit

Yeah… I don’t think so. We’ve just touched that in a King Air at FL330 going 320 true with a 150 knot quartering tailwind and CAT that made us think twice.

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Substantial-Sector60@reddit

130mph in a ‘65 Pontiac GTO. At night; 2 Lane highway. Rear tires showing cords. Had my lap belt on, though.

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Kjartanski@reddit

190kts GS on a ILS DME ARC , maintaining “best speed” on the outbound leg, in a DA-40, my right foot was cramping bad during the arc turn, head wind after ILS intercept dropped something like 50kts down to only 15kts at the threshold

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Doc_Hank@reddit

-40, C182 getting blown backwards through San Gorgonio Pass in so cal

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stephen1547@reddit

212 knots ground speed. AW139 helicopter.

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Mynoseispurple@reddit

146 knot ground speed in a Archer

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NFLDolphinsGuy@reddit

I believe it was 186 kts over the ground, so that’s what 214 MPH? It was in a C172 and I had a huge tailwind.

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daygloviking@reddit

I’ve awarded plenty of M0.2 patches for students in a Warrior

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OpinionofanAH@reddit

I had a tbm northbound directly into a 120+ kt headwind, his ground speed was 42kts according to my display. When I asked if that was correct, the pilot said he could get out and walk faster. The best non tailwind speed I’ve seen was 500kt gs from some kind of trainer military jet vfr at 165. For reference, the airbus’ and 737s I was working at a similar altitude in their climb were over 200kts slower. And they typically climbed at 290-320 indicated.

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Screaming_Emu@reddit

On Thursday I got 714 over the ground in a 747

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fackmea@reddit

-20kts c152

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Hbgplayer@reddit

Air speed or ground speed?

Airspeed is 125 in a 76 Grumman Cheetah. Just one of those perfectly smooth, crisp NorCal winter days, with the engine leaned just right. Decending at 500ft/minute from 9,500 feet.

Ground speed, in the same airplane: 160kts. It scared the shit outta me when I realized because my TAS was about 105, and I was not looking forward to the flight in the opposite direction.

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Planeandaquariumgeek@reddit

140kIAS in an A150

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njsullyalex@reddit

Non-airplane: 128 mph, riding Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure (RIP)

Airplane: this is a guess but based on wind direction and aircraft model, probably the time I flew on a United Boeing 777-200 from KIAH to KEWR

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THXHVAC@reddit

Mach .15. Didn’t even flinch

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Seattle_gldr_rdr@reddit

58mph OTG in a paraglider at full-bar with a tailwind.

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Earwaxsculptor@reddit

So I’m just here because I like to read things I don’t know about but I was on a flight from PHI to MCO that got delayed for 5 or so hours and I renewed the Captain telling us he was going to go as fast as the plane could handle and I don’t recall the speed but I do recall him shaving off a substantial amount of time we should have been in the air. I thought that was cool.

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awkwarddachshund@reddit

I got up to 210 knots ground speed in a serious one time with the right tailwinds.

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Timely-Discipline427@reddit

7 seconds.

I was much younger back then.

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