How fast does an airplane fly?

The speed of aircraft varies greatly, independing on the type of their engines and the purpose of the aircraft. For example, the An-2 agricultural aircraft (the same as the "corn"), the speed during the execution of the work is about 150 km / h, even some cars accelerate to a higher speed. But for pollination of fields high speed is not necessary, otherwise quality of works will suffer.

Cruising speed of passenger twin-engineturboprop An-24 is 460 km / h. By the way, speaking, with what speed the plane flies, it is important to specify which speed is meant: takeoff, track, cruising or maximum. Cruising speed is about 80% of the maximum. Track speed does not only depend on the aircraft's own speed, but also on the speed and direction of the air flow, therefore, on each flight of the same aircraft, the track speed can be different. The speed of jet passenger aircraft is significantly higher than the screw speed.