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TIL commercial aircraft can sometimes fly at ground speeds greater than the speed of sound. Air speed is the speed of an aircraft relative to the air it is flying through—the higher ground speeds can happen when flying within fast winds such as the jet stream, which once created a GS of Mach ~1.1.

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