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Today’s airliners cruise slower than a 747.
by rayiner 4mo ago
Today’s airliners cruise slower than a 747.
- rootusrootus 4mo agoNot due to any technical limitation, and that is just one single metric.
- decimalenough 4mo agoBut they do so much more efficiently, and the speed difference is minimal (Boeing 747-8 cruises at 706 mph, 787 Dreamliner at 690 mph).
- rayiner 4mo agoThere’s nothing sexy about incremental efficiency advances.
- dcrazy 4mo agoFor very rational economic reasons, underpinned by the same fundamental physical principle that makes my car more fuel-efficient doing 60 instead of 85.