how fast can superman fly?

I allways wanted to know how fast can superman fly? 😕

There's never really been a limit shown, and he's gone as fast as or past the speed of light on more than once occasion...

Here's a real question for Superman and all who fly.

How do they exactly fly faster?

probably the same way you go from a jog to a sprint...

Originally posted by Raoul
probably the same way you go from a jog to a sprint...

Yeah but you have your legs moving faster when you sprint. What does he make move faster when he flies?

Originally posted by Wei Phoenix
Yeah but you have your legs moving faster when you sprint. What does he make move faster when he flies?

it's all to do with the brain. anyone who can fly under their own power has a certain psionic ability to regulate their flight with their mind, imo...

I didn't know that the ability to fly was psionic. I guess Peter Pan was right. But yeah question just popped up after hearing one of my favorite comedians.

Originally posted by Wei Phoenix
I didn't know that the ability to fly was psionic. I guess Peter Pan was right. But yeah question just popped up after hearing one of my favorite comedians.

most superpowers are psionic in nature, imo. magneto doesn't wave his hands at metal, he thinks what he wants to happen. arms are just used to look cool.

as fast as he needs to, of course.

Originally posted by Wei Phoenix
Yeah but you have your legs moving faster when you sprint. What does he make move faster when he flies?

Originally posted by Raoul
most superpowers are psionic in nature, imo. magneto doesn't wave his hands at metal, he thinks what he wants to happen. arms are just used to look cool.

Desaad speculated once that it was gravity/spacetime manipulation

Anyway he doesn't fly faster than light on earth because it would damage the planet but in space he has flown up to millions of times lightspeed (in Infinite Crisis when he flew from earth to the Andromeda galaxy in a few hours)

Originally posted by jalek moye
While i can see being able to regulate flightwith your mind. I dont agree with the idea that all his powers are becuase he's physic

not all, but some. i mean, super strength and durability aren't psionic, not totally. he just throws a punch like anyone else would. wind breath is just blowing really hard.

stuff like heat vision, flight and cold breath, though, would have to be psionic in nature i think...

Originally posted by Endless Mike
Desaad speculated once that it was gravity/spacetime manipulation

Anyway he doesn't fly faster than light on earth because it would damage the planet but in space he has flown up to millions of times lightspeed (in Infinite Crisis when he flew from earth to the Andromeda galaxy in a few hours)

you talking about when he flew to rao with the two supermen?

Don't forget that whole, "oh, I was out by Vega when I heard your signal watch, Jimmy" from Countdown.

He was definitely folding some kinda space/time to make that return trip.

Originally posted by Raoul
not all, but some. i mean, super strength and durability aren't psionic, not totally. he just throws a punch like anyone else would. wind breath is just blowing really hard.

stuff like heat vision, flight and cold breath, though, would have to be psionic in nature i think...

About mach 2.

you talking about when he flew to rao with the two supermen? [/B]

Yeah, Rao was stated to be in the Andromeda galaxy which is millions of light - years away, the calculations said it was a few million times lightspeed (that was using 12 hours for the travel time, which was probably an overestimation)

Originally posted by jalek moye
I'd think that cold breath is just him blowing to cool somthing down, and thats just how cool his breath gets. ad heat vision well hes an uber alien i just figure the yellow sun gives him abilites that we can't understand

i just remember what yat said about it in glc, how it was almost an automatic response, which would indicate some sort of mental faculty, at least for me...

Originally posted by Endless Mike
Yeah, Rao was stated to be in the Andromeda galaxy which is millions of light - years away, the calculations said it was a few million times lightspeed (that was using 12 hours for the travel time, which was probably an overestimation)

is this real rao or comic rao? cos afaik, the comics can't seem to decide... i remember they once said krypton was in sector 2813...

Originally posted by Raoul
i just remember what yat said about it in glc, how it was almost an automatic response, which would indicate some sort of mental faculty, at least for me...

Originally posted by Raoul
i just remember what yat said about it in glc, how it was almost an automatic response, which would indicate some sort of mental faculty, at least for me...