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Old 30th Mar 2010, 13:21
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Holy Crap! I've got a few thousand hours on those and I didn't know the ASI could really go that high! Great photos...especially the camera shake in the MMO test.
Whilst it might look like shake, it was merely the auto-focus on the camera not behaving properly. The big plane just sat there nice & stable - remember that Mr Boeing has run one up to M 0.991 with no problems at all.

FWIW one of the companies I used to work for had a 747-200 hit by a very power standing wave out in the middle of the Pacific; even with idle thrust it ran up to M 0.96 before slowing down. Again, zero damage and I think they made a little fuel on that sector.
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