April 22nd 07, 10:35 PM
posted to rec.travel.air,rec.aviation.piloting
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Blue Angels plane crashes
Kingfish wrote:
On Apr 22, 3:58 am, Mike Hunt postmaster@localhost wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:
See
http://us.cnn.com/2007/US/04/21/blue...ash/index.html
Interesting quote he
"On an F-18, you have two motors, and if they take [a bird] in the
engine, it could cause engine failure and shut that down," he said. He
said the plane is capable of flying in excess of 450 mph.
An F-18 can fly in excess of 450 MPH.. Who would've guessed?
Those CNN guys *are* slick aren't they? 1.8 Mach IS faster than
450mph. My Convert-O-Matic program sez it's actually 1,383mph. (Mach
speed figure is from Boeing)
Actually, the speed of sound (Mach) varies. MPH doesn't.
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