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This was not a typical sluggish wayward Cessna 152 or 172 with a cruise speed of 122 knots that tend to violate airspace by ignorance. The Cessna 560 Citation V
by wiseleo 3y ago
This was not a typical sluggish wayward Cessna 152 or 172 with a cruise speed of 122 knots that tend to violate airspace by ignorance. The Cessna 560 Citation V Business Jet cruises at 430 knots/Mach 0.755 and can probably fly faster. I wish news articles would include the model family in the headline.
At Mach 0.755 with supersonic barrier being at Mach 1.0, it becomes obvious why it had to be a supersonic intercept.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> The Citation 560 business cruises at 430 knots and can accelerate to Mach 0.755 and probably faster. 430 knots is about Mach 0.75 at the Citation’s cruising altitude of 45,000 ft.
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