Convert 8,500 Knots to Feet per Second
How fast is 8,500 knots? What is 8.5 thousand knots in feet per second? 8,500 knots to fps conversion.
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8,500 Knots ≈
14,346.384 Feet per Second
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Result in Plain English
8,500 knots is equal to about 14.3 thousand feet per second.
In Scientific Notation
8,500 knots
= 8.5 x 103 knots
≈ 1.43464 x 104 feet per second
Knots
A knot is a unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour. Something traveling at one knot is going about 1.151 land miles per hour.Common abbreviations: kn, kt
Feet per Second
A foot per second is a unit of speed. Something traveling at one foot per second is traveling exactly 0.3048 meters per second, or about 0.682 miles per hour.Common abbreviations: ft/s, fps