Re: top speed

[T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>]

Jorel Jackson wrote:
> 
> >From: "Brian Honnold" <bhonnold@pac-cap.com>
> >To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> >Subject: Re: top speed
> >Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:33:32 -0800
> >
> >Um...that's very interesting Rich...
> >
> >Isn't the 747 a SUBSONIC aircraft???????
> >
> >I always knew you wide body pilots were smoking crack in flight :-)
> >
> >Brian Honnold
> >78' Rocco Ragtop
> >
> >>Top Speed?
> >>
> >>825+mph        Boeing 747, Last summer:  NYC to LA
> >>
> >>Peace
> >>Rich
> >>88 16V
> 
> Rich never did specify what altitude he was flying at, and if he had a
> little jetstream push. The speed of sound does not have a fixed value.
> No way a 747 could do that at lower altitudes.
> 
> JSJackson 85 Scirocco


I interpreted it to mean the plane was out of control at the time and in
a death spiral toward the ground, but that he used his Scirocco
heightened skills to rectify the situation, enabling the grateful
passengers to reach their destinations, unharmed.   heh heh.

TBerk

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