| Re: Is it just me, or are airliners slower than they used to be? |
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| Byker (byker@do~rag.net) |
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"Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message
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> The Convair 880 cruised at .89 Mach and the 990 a little faster, but they
> could not compete with Douglas and Boeing.
And even back when gas was cheap, the fuel burn at Mach 0.9 made them barely
economical.
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