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Old 01-19-2011, 06:20 PM
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Old 01-19-2011, 06:39 PM
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way to squash my recent accomplishment! I hit 185kts in a 172 coming back from CA to FL at 9.5
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Old 01-19-2011, 06:45 PM
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210kts in a 66 Mooney M20E. (Usually 150 kts).
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Old 01-19-2011, 06:54 PM
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Standing by for the military guys to post something really impressive
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Old 01-19-2011, 07:37 PM
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421kts in a King Air 300
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115 IAS @ 70,000.

I believe the U-2 is about 104 IAS.
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I'm impressed that you had taken a pic! In all the years working at the ATC in Oakland (well, Fremont actually), the highest I ever saw from airliners was about 635kts. Jetstream at about 150kts on the tail, at M.85 or so.

Fastest ever was about 1800kts, SR-71 routinely flying in and out of Beale AFB. I tried tracking a missile off Vandeberg AFB at about 3000kts, but obviously no transponder to lock a tag on.

For myself, flying in the little Barbie Jet, about the same, 630kts GS, 480-ish TAS somewhere in North America. There's no jet stream where I've been flying that last couple years.
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I lost the pic but I have 722 kts straight and level .91. Got a few comments from ATC that day.
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Whats a barbie jet
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Old 01-20-2011, 02:54 AM
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Sadly, in the days of GPS, it seems that such radio one-upsmanship is long since gone.
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