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Speed of a bolt of lightning (350,000 km/h)

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If Speed of a bolt of lightning (350,000 km/h) was a standard unit ...

  • Fastest speed attained by a jet aircraft (3,530 km/h)...more would be 1/100 of Speed of a bolt of lightning
  • Speed of a commercial airliner (880 km/h)...more would be 1/400 of Speed of a bolt of lightning
  • Fastest speed attained by a propeller aircraft (870 km/h)...more would be 1/400 of Speed of a bolt of lightning
  • Speed of China's Shijiazhuang?Wuhan high-speed train (350 km/h)...more would be 1/1000 of Speed of a bolt of lightning

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