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TeMPOraL | on: France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
> And a 777 is about 16x faster than a carrier.

Surely that's missing a 0 or are carriers really that fast?

marricks | parent | next
Aircraft carrier speed... 33 knots or about 35mph[1]

Boeing 777 speed 554mph[2]

So about 16x!

[1] http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-028.php

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777

ray__ | root | parent
Honestly pretty crazy, although that must be the max speed. The carrier was going about 10 mph in this case (per Strava).
jmalicki | root | parent
They don't normally go that fast from what I understand. That is their top speed in reserve they can use for evasive maneuvers, they don't want to go faster than their support fleet or deal with the high maintenance running at threshold will cause.

It's like when you drive your car you're not normally redlining it since that will kill the engine if you do it all the time.

jmalicki | parent | next
Commercial airliners are sub mach1. The Charles de Gaulle is reported to go at least 27 knots at top speed.

27*16=432, a 777 goes 510-520 knots.

So maybe more like 18-19x.

For the carriers it is at least as the true top speed is classified.

loeg | root | parent
16x, 20x -- it's about the right order of magnitude.
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