How many miles does an Airplane fly in one minute?

Question

What is the mileage of an airplane flying at one minute?
I just want to know how many miles an airplane can fly in a minute.
Or just a ratio of the time and mileage.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Commercial jets fly about 400-500 Miles per hour. So it would fly about 75 miles in a minute.

Answer 2

It really depends on the aircraft, & if you are asking about airspeed, or groundspeed. Once an aircraft has left the ground it is moving through a pocket of air. It's movement can be tracked relative to the ground but usually we only measure the speed of the aircraft relative to the air, or in airspeed.

If an aircraft was travelling into a headwind of 50 miles per hour, & the aircrafts airspeed was only 50 miles per hour, then the aircrafts groundspeed would be 0 miles per hour just as an example.

Now if the same aircraft were to turn around & fly with tailwind of 50 miles per hour then the aircrafts groundspeed would now be 100 miles per hour.

As you know there are different wind conditions for any given day, plus the wind speeds vary at different altitudes. Most of the time, wind speeds will increase with altitude, but that always isn't the rule.

Mix in with that the fact that different aircraft fly at different airspeeds, & it really makes your question unanswerable since you need to be more specific about the type & class of the airplane you want to know about, plus the intended direction that the aircraft is going to travel, what altitude the aircraft is going to cruise at, plus what day it is going to fly since the forecast upper winds could be different from one day to the next.

Answer 3

Depends on the airplane. One I flew 2 miles a minute maximum, one 2 miles a minute landing speed.
An airplane flying a 600 mph is going 10 miles per minute.

Answer 4

If you mean in mph. It is simple if you mean top speed of a type just take that miles an hour and divide it by sixty. If you mean by the rate it is flying at a given time, take it's given airspeed and subtract a headwind, then divide by sixty. But it will be in Knots, nautical speed not MPH for many individual aircraft types, especially older ones. Today for most modern aircraft that are military, and civil, a computer does it or GPS system. Tells you where you are all the time. This would only be an issue for something pretty old. In the metric system it would be Kilometers per hour.

Answer 5

That depends upon the airplane. Different aircraft cruise at vastly different speeds. An old Piper J3 Cub barely cruised at 60 MPH so it would go about a mile in a minute. The SR-71 Blackbird could cover at least 40 miles in a minute at speed and altitude.

Answer 6

Depends on the plane. Most planes would have to be flying at least 2 miles per minute to stay airborne. Although top speed is classified, it is known that an SR-71 Blackbird can attain 33 miles per minute. Most commercial airliners can do 8 to 10 miles per minute at top speed.

Answer 7

About 6 or 7 miles per minute.

Answer 8

Just to make the math simple airplanes have all kinds of different speed so it is hard to tell big jets can fly from around 500 to 700mph roughly so for easy math lets say 600mph. 600 divided by 60(min) = 10miles per min. If you have the Mph you can easily figure it out miles per hour divide by 60 and you know have miles per min and if you want to convert distance and use other math crap you could figure you miles per sec but that would be a .dec so I would convert it to feet or yards. get a math book If you know the formula and the rules to the formula you can figure out just about anything.

Answer 9

Mmmmm well that will depend on the palane some palnes fly very slowly, and others very fast. what kind of miles do you mean. there are statute miles and nautical miles. most planes fly in nautical miles. i have flowen as slow as about 10 miles an hour ground speed. every plane will be differant.

Answer 10

You need only to divide the speed in mph by 60.
for example if the plane flyes 300 mph, it does 5 miles in a minute
for example if the plane flyes 600 mph, it does 10 miles in a minute. very easy!!!

Answer 11

If you mean a jetliner, if we take the average speed to be 600 miles per hour, then a jetliner would fly about 10 miles per minute.