On a boeing 747 how long does it take to cover 1 mile?

Question

On a boeing 747 how long does it take to cover 1 mile?

Answer 1

It depends if it's flying or taxiing.

Answer 2

No, it's not a valid comparison. A better anaolgy is to imagine millions of millions of junkyards, through which you send your tornadoes. After the tornadoes have passed through, you carefully sift through the remains looking for anything that resembles any assembled parts of a 747; if you find such a part, you keep it - otherwise, you disassemble what you find. Then you send the tornadoes through again, and repeat the whole process. Millions of millions of times. Eventually, you will end up with something that looks a lot like a 747. > "I would never say that intelligence couldn't produce a 747 - it, infact, has. According to argument #8 an intelligent criteria with a goal in mind was applied to the data selection. Chemicals didn't just decide one day "oh wouldn't it be nice if I coud reproduce, or synthesize protein... I know I'll save a way to do it!" " No intelligent input is required: just external selective pressure. Even in the abiotic stew, molecules that can self-replicate will come to predominate simply because nothing else is self-replicating. > "As an analogy, consider the 13-letter sequence "TOBEORNOTTOBE." Those hypothetical million monkeys, each pecking out one phrase a second, could take as long as 78,800 years to find it among the 2613 sequences of that length. But in the 1980s Richard Hardison of Glendale College wrote a computer program that generated phrases randomly while preserving the positions of individual letters that happened to be correctly placed (in effect, selecting for phrases more like Hamlet's). On average, the program re-created the phrase in just 336 iterations, less than 90 seconds." And this is *exactly* the same as my 747 version above. Randome events (mutations or tornadoes) produce new traits. But *directed* events (selective pressure, or you looking for 747-like parts) choose what gets retained and what gets junked.

Answer 3

Easy to figure out the new 747-8 will go 567 mph. That's roughly 9.45 miles per minute. It will go a mile in about 6 seconds.
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Answer 4

a 747-400 can do around 10 miles a minute at a cruising speed of 583mph, so it could do a mile in around 6 seconds!

Answer 5

This is assuming it's flying at normal cruising speed:

Cruising speed for one of those, according to airliners.net, is about 490 knots (nautical miles per hour - a nautical mile is basically a mile which takes the Earth's curve into account).

I know that 90 knots is about 100 miles per hour, so that'd be about 544 mph. Since speed is distance over time, time must be distance over speed, so 1 mile divided by 544 mph is 0.00184 hours.

That's about 7 seconds.

Answer 6

Short answer... If your Captain is on overtime... he can take 10 minutes to taxi one mile.

Long answer... Normal cruise speed of Mach .855 at 37,000 feet is 480 Nautical Miles per Hour, without any wind. Which is 552 Imperial Miles Per Hour... Which is 9.2 Miles per minute...

Which is 6.65 seconds per mile. Whew.

Answer 7

7 seconds

Answer 8

Depends on how fast its flying but it can be as quick as 9 miles a minute - so 6.7 secs roughly.

Answer 9

It depends on how fast the plane is going.... but at normal cruising speed (approx. 540 mph), it would take approx. 6.6 seconds.

Answer 10

in an average jet airplane
you cover in 8 minutes by flying the same distance it takes
a car to drive an hour on the interstate

all the best !

Answer 11

It does rather depend on what speed it's doing! However, at 500mph, it would be 7.2 seconds . . .