Do airplanes have to respect any top speed?

The sky is the limit. But are there limits in the heavens? The answer is yes and no! A common curiosity is about what happens in air transport, which generate so much fear in some people. The fact is that there are several issues involved in flight, including speed limits.

There are speed delimiters when flying at certain altitudes, civil areas, around airports etc. For example, when flying below 3, 000 meters altitude, it is necessary to use the “calm road”, which limits 463 km / h. Clearly the same as vehicles on the streets on rainy days.

While in Brazil the only thing that has no limit is the zueira, in civil aviation the aircraft, when they are on taxiing ground, cannot exceed 37 km / h (less in landing and takeoff processes). By contrast, there are no upper limit regulations for flying at high altitudes (over 3, 000 meters) in some places, especially over the ocean, other than that stated by the aircraft manufacturer.

For you to have a parameter, know that the Airbus A380 - currently the largest commercial airliner with a capacity of up to 853 passengers - averages 900 km / h in flight and can reach just over 1, 000 km / h under certain conditions. climate change.

Impressive? Yes, but it still doesn't come close to the Concorde, a commercial aircraft that shut down in 2003 due to high costs but reached Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound)! Made at 2, 500 km / h, trips from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on Concorde took an average of 5 hours - on other models, it's about 11 hours.

One of the reasons why we will hardly see scenes like Tom Cruise in "Top Gun: Raging Aces" is the impact on the ground when you cross the sound barrier, such as broken windows and excessive (almost deafening) noise. This means that in many countries it is prohibited to break the sound barrier on commercial flights.

To check if the rules are followed, there are air traffic controllers to monitor aircraft in restricted areas; In addition, airlines track their aircraft data individually. And penalties are enforced according to infractions, ranging from cash fines to disqualification.

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