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Old 17th January 2012 | 13:46
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Hello!

Gulp. Where do I start?
I don't think this is a question that needs to be ansered by claculations, but rather an excercise about knowing the orders of magnitude of the speed units!

The speed of sound is roughly 1000 km/h at low level (and this includes the 15000ft in the question). Therefore Mach 0.4 is 400km/h. The only value in the list that comes close to that figure is 200kt.

If you want to now the exact answer you can also google for "mach number calcuator".

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