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17th December 2005 | 14:37

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Old Smokey

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Rainboe,

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I think the Mach crit for modern jets is about M.93

A wee bit of a typo perhaps? Perhaps you meant M0.83, that's about right for a B747 with a nominal cruise Mach Number in the range 0.85 to 0.86.

Regards,

Old Smokey