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    British Airways flight breaks record for fastest subsonic trip from New York to Londo

    Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A British Airways flight broke the record for the fastest subsonic flight between New York and London overnight from Saturday to Sunday.

    Flight-tracking service Flightradar24 said that the Boeing 747 aircraft reached its destination 4 hours and 56 minutes arriving at Heathrow airport at 4:43 a.m., nearly two hours ahead of schedule.





    The plan reached a top speed of 825 mph as it sought to arrive in England ahead of an oncoming winter storm.


    "We always prioritize safety over speed records, but our highly trained pilots made the most of the conditions to get customers back to London well ahead of time," a British Airways representative told the BBC.


    Norwegian set the previous record in January 2018, completing the 3,458-mile trip in 5 hours and 13 minutes to break British Airways' 2015 record of 5 hours and 16 minutes.


    Flightradar24 noted that the record-setting British Airways flight was one minute faster than a Virgin Airbus A350 flight and three minutes faster than another Virgin plane, both of which also broke the 2018 record.

    British Airways flight breaks record for fastest subsonic trip from New York to London - UPI.com

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    Two hours early on an 8 hour flight os pretty good going...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    Two hours early on an 8 hour flight os pretty good going...
    Not if you are pinned to you seat by G force and desperate for a piss.

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    ^ somebody will be along shortly to discuss concepts such as acceleration and objects travelling at equal speed to you...

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    ^ you'd think in my line of business i'd know about stuff like that. Ta.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NamPikToot View Post
    Not if you are pinned to you seat by G force and desperate for a piss.




    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    ^ somebody will be along shortly to discuss concepts such as acceleration and objects travelling at equal speed to you...
    Thanks betty~~~

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post


    Thanks betty~~~
    Why thanks Ron, i always wondered how they made the journey in Concorde without a wee wee. Now where's that doggie diddler, he should be along shortly.

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    Remember a similar thing on a DEN-BWI United B727 late night flight in the mid-90s. Captain announced we were supersonic over the ground. We arrived an hour early.

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    Jaysus that must have had a wind up its arse.

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    Interesting stuff.

    I wonder just how much extra fuel they burnt to achieve that and did they fly higher for reduced air resistance?

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    Quote Originally Posted by David48atTD View Post
    Interesting stuff.

    I wonder just how much extra fuel they burnt to achieve that and did they fly higher for reduced air resistance?
    Jet stream David. Simply were pushed along at over 200 mph.

    Going TYO/SFO in the winter once made the flight in under 7 hours. Again jet stream.

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    Bomb Cyclone Jet Stream Shoots British Airways Plane Across Atlantic Faster Than the Speed of Sound

    A British Airways flight crushed a record on Sunday for the fastest-ever subsonic flight between New York and London after a bomb cyclone hit the North Atlantic over the weekend, which created a jet stream that can push planes to velocities greater than the speed of sound. The jet stream, which was dragged by the cyclone into a favorable location for aircrafts, is often sought after by flights as a passageway to boost their travel time.

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    ^ ^^ Thanks

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