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Re:Boeing 787 Reaches 801 MPH as a Jet Stream Packs Record-B... by kevmo314 on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @04:03PM (#19202764)
30k ft is nothing compared to the radius of the Earth which is 21M ft. The measurement instrument has larger error sources, so the answer is it doesn't actually matter.
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