Cruising speed -- Mach 0.82-0.83. In metric terms, 248.9 m/s or 896 km per hour. All of these are rough calculations and not precise in the least. Now, in that all new conspiracy thread, since no FE'er would do it, I calculated the distances, roughly midway in there. I did all of this a while ago, take a look in the middle of that thread, its long, but its worth it, and humorous with Tom in it...