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Author: Conor
Date: Mar 22, 2008 12:58
...In real life the speed would be more like 250 to 270 knots, which gets us down to around 12 minutes with a tiny smidge of a margin. A 12 minute descent is around 2000 ft/minute. That Air Transat glided longer than that. More like 30 minutes IIRC. It was 18 minutes. And they only managed to make it 18 minutes by catching a thermal. 12 minutes from 35,000 feet is a ...
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