Speed of a commercial airliner

Speed of a commercial airliner (880 km/h)

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If Speed of a commercial airliner (880 km/h) was a standard unit ...

  • Speed of a bolt of lightning (350,000 km/h)...more would be 400 x Speed of a commercial airliner
  • Fastest speed attained by a jet aircraft (3,530 km/h)...more would be 4 x Speed of a commercial airliner
  • Fastest speed attained by a propeller aircraft (870 km/h)...more would be about as big as Speed of a commercial airliner
  • Speed of China's Shijiazhuang?Wuhan high-speed train (350 km/h)...more would be 2/5 of Speed of a commercial airliner
  • Top speed of a horse (88 km/h)...more would be 1/10 of Speed of a commercial airliner
  • Speed of Usain Bolt at his fastest (yet) (44.7 km/h)...more would be 1/20 of Speed of a commercial airliner
  • Fastest speed attained by a human-powered aircraft (44.3 km/h)...more would be 1/20 of Speed of a commercial airliner
  • Top speed of a Brown Bear (35 km/h)...more would be 1/25 of Speed of a commercial airliner
  • Top speed of a Bottlenose Dolphin (35 km/h)...more would be 1/25 of Speed of a commercial airliner
  • Top speed of a California Sea Lion swimming (21.6 km/h)...more would be 1/40 of Speed of a commercial airliner

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