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Old 2nd February 2003 | 18:13
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18-Wheeler
 
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Out of Narita to Nadi in Fiji, just at top of climb we hit 698kts G/S.
It made up for the 330kts G/S on the way in!

Anyway, here's the fastest I've gone in level flight in anything -
http://www.billzilla.org/reallyhighmach.jpg

Mach 0.915, hand flown whilst taking the picture. The plane started to nod up & down slowly past about 0.9 odd ....
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