Even then the big plane would be traveling at better than 150 knots.
At twenty knots, that's going to take an hour and a half.
At five knots we'd be one hundred and twenty miles away.
She could cruise through a good sea at 20 knots.
Now I think we are also correct to continue at five knots.
Officer of the Watch, hold our speed at eight knots for another 20 hours.
Even at six knots we should be there in the morning.
Range was to have been 2,800 miles at 17 knots, as in the original design.
A few minutes later they were on their way at thirty knots.
The wall they are confronting is at 50 knots, or about 58 miles an hour.