Amazing video shows the actual speeds planes reach – and people are in disbelief
A video shared on TikTok shows the actual speed planes can reach – leaving some viewers in disbelief.
The seven-second clip, shared by user @plutosdestiny, is captioned simply, “The True Speed of Airplanes.”
In the short video, a small plane appears to be moving across the sky quite quickly.
The words “The True Speed of Airplanes” are written across the screen in text form and embedded within the imagery of the sky and clouds, and are taken from the caption.
During the clip, the camera captures footage of what is believed to be a Boeing 737 from another aircraft.
A clip from the video (pictured) shared by TikTok user @plutosdestiny showing the “real speed of airplanes”.
Reaching a cruising speed of 545 miles per hour, the Boeing appears to be traveling very quickly.
Since people usually see airplanes from a great distance, and often observe them in the sky from the ground, they appear to be flying extremely slowly.
The seemingly low speed is due to a phenomenon called motion parallax.
This concept refers to the fact that objects moving across the frame at a constant speed appear to move more slowly when they are farther from the viewer (a person or camera) than when they are closer.
The person filming the plane in the clip, which has been viewed more than 1.7 million times, is closer to the moving jet than a person would normally be watching an airplane.
Viewers took to the comments section to share their mixed reactions to the video – some said it put them off flying
Therefore, the plane looks as if it is moving fast, which it will be: it is traveling at a speed of several hundred miles per hour.
Reactions to the clip were mixed, with some viewers saying they didn’t believe the video.
One wrote: “I will refuse to believe this.”
Meanwhile, another said: “I didn’t need to know that a few days before the flight.”
And a similar comment read: “Never take a plane again.”