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I'm sure that we're all aware of the facts about the SR-71 and the details required to get it to go over mach 3 at 85000'. I assume it's quite a bit more difficult to get a passenger plane to go nearly twice as fast.

Although I did see Tom Cruise go over mach 9 in the latest Top Gun movie!
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