OK Av Nerds, explain me this.
I just came back from Maui on flight 3005 on that Thomas Cook 757 blast from the past early 90's Jalopy in 5hrs 11min! Even the flight attendant said she has never run that flight, that quick. Apparently there was a serious tail wind. The ground speed indicator showed over 800 MPH and read as high as 812 mph during the flight (which I am sure was a glitch). I know the plane technically didn't break the sound barrier, but if it was possible, there was another jet, with a completely neutral tail wind a few kms away, going exactly mach 1, would we still have covered distance faster than them?
Here is the log, she was boogying right along, we hit a top speed of 1184 kph.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/W.../CYYC/tracklog