QUESTION:
How does the KAO see things when the plane is going 540 miles per hour

ANSWER from Allan Meyer on November 13, 1995:
Moving at high speed usually does not make it hard to look at distant
objects with your eyes or a telescope, as long as you are moving smoothly. 
When you are riding in a car down the freeway at 60 miles an hour, you can
look out the window at a distant horse in a field, or a tree on a hilltop,
with no problem. 

You can also look up at clouds in the sky.  If it's at night, you can look
out the car window at the stars in the sky, and they don't seem to be left
behind just because the car you are riding in is speeding down the
freeway.  Eventually the horse in the field or the tree on the hill do get
left behind, because they are not very far away.  The much more distant
moon or stars do not appear to be left behind, whether you are riding in a
car or in an airplane.  However, the earth is rotating, and after hours go
by the sun, moon or stars do appear to move across the sky and set because
you are being carried around to the other side of the round earth.  Keep
in mind when you look up at the stars that you are always moving at about
700 miles per hour due to the (very smooth) turning of the earth, and the
earth is moving around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour. 

Allan Meyer