[scottmandue]

A few years back I picked up my wife at LAX in the evening and I got on the 105 freeway that parallels the airport and the path of the huge airliners coming in for a landing. Looking straight at them with their lights on you could see for a good twenty miles or more. They seem to be hanging motionless in the sky, five or six of them lined up. My wife asks "how do they hang out like that?" my man brain starts whirring {airfoil+movement=bernoulli} but then we were both tired and I just said "honey they are moving". I was about to say "a couple hundred miles an hour" but then looking right at them... just hanging in the sky like that... I cut myself off because I honestly don't know how fast they are coming in. I'm sure it varies by airplane but generally how fast is a big airliner moving on the final approach?
TIA