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Answer for the clue "The going rate for planes? ", 8 letters:
airspeed

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n. the speed of an aircraft relative to the air in which it is flying

Usage examples of airspeed.

In the backseat Casey noted the TACAN position, heading, altitude, and airspeed on his kneeboard so that this could all be reconstructed later if need be.

Dukedom and were well out to Sea, Douglas increased their airspeed to just below the point Mym had warned of, where breath became hard to catch.

Only hurtling down the deck on the edge of airspeed, night vision shot to shit by the landing lights, sparks rooster-tailing from their hook, and a second later falling over the front end into the dark without a hope, yet hoping, praying.

I ruled a straight track line from Grand Cayman to Trox on both maps and, having squeezed the information out of Kris, who was still inclined to look backward to his feeling of obligation and to his new alliance with Robin, wrote in the airspeed, and consequently the time, that should deliver us to Trox.

Altitude, airspeed, heading, fuel, deltas on control surfacesflaps, slats, ailerons, elevators, rudder.

Digital Air Data Computer, which recorded airspeed, altitude, and overspeed warnings .

You get a reading for, say, airspeed, and then you get another reading four blocks later.

Scott agreed as he reached forward to reposition a small white plastic pointer on his airspeed indicator.

Suddenly the wings had insufficient airspeed to produce enough lift to keep them airborne, and the seventy-five-ton airplane shuddered and began falling.

They were back to wings level and neutral rudder, holding altitude at four thousand three hundred feet and airspeed at two hundred sixty when the whole thing began again, starting with the same shuddering bang.

He reached up to his airspeed indicator and set the speed at one hundred and eight knots.

The first man to go off on the cable, which, by the way, simulates the opening shock of a parachute of a man leaving a C-130 transport at a true airspeed of one hundred twenty miles an hour, will be an instructor.

He watched the airspeed, holding her down for a few seconds more, wanting the speed to throw the ship high, to take her up steeply.

One of them must display angle of attack or relative airspeed, margin above stalling speed, something like that.

Clara, but the nose dropped abruptly, before too much airspeed was lost, and the plane settled into a shallow climb to build up airspeed.