On Nov 19, 2015, at 8:08 PM, dennis hipperson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Upon landing I was able to go to the cockpit and ask Captain Egan what had 
> happened.
> He said we were in wave and the speed brakes and engines were doing their job 
> of
> controlling speed and that at one point we nearly went through VNE !!!!!

At FL040 a few hours out from London, an A380 would be simultaneously within a 
handful of knots of Vne and a handful of knots of Vs. Speeding up and slowing 
down would both be something you’d want to do very carefully (which, I assume, 
the flight management systems take care of gently :-)

   - mark


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