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Old 12-13-2013 | 02:58 PM
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Originally Posted by oliveDrab
I've always wondered how flyer's figure out how fast their plane is going. With my electric prop planes I can use pitch of the prop and rpm's to get a rough idea of how fast it should go or how fast it is actually going. How do you figure that out with a jet? Do you have some type of radar? Or maybe an on-board data device?

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-oD
There's several iPhone apps that use the Doppler effect to measure speed. Do a search in the App Store and you'll find them. They say they're pretty accurate.