Who has been on a bullet train?

Is an airplane twice the speed of a bullet train?

• Because i was watching a Hybrid Librarian video about certain new technologies that are about to emerge and one was "Hypersonic Trains", said to be twice as fast as an airplane and four times the speed of a bullet train.  If this is so:  x2 speed of airplane= x4 speed of a bullet train (because nothing can just be 2 different speeds simultaneously (as far as i'm aware)) and that is a ratio of 2:4( or 1:2) so airplanes would go at twice whatever a bullet train's speed would be. This is a flawed conclusion because not all airplanes would fly exactly at the same speed and not every train would run equally and the internet is full of misinformation as well. It was an embarrassing realization. :)

• Answer:

  The fastest recorded maglev train speed is 581 km/h (375 mph).  Typical operating velocity is about half of that. Cruising speed for a typical passenger jet is about 900 km/h (560 mph).  The Concorde would travel at 2,179 km/h (1,354 mph). So the typical airplane is about three times as fast as a typical bullet train, as is the fastest historical passenger airplane against the fastest bullet train.