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Baroque Bloke |
“British Airways has recorded its fastest ever transatlantic flight after a plane flew from New York to London in just four hours and 56 minutes. The Boeing 747 hurtled across the Atlantic at more than 800mph on the back of Storm Ciara's 200mph winds before touching down at Heathrow at 4.48am today. It is thought to have set a new record for subsonic passenger planes as its https://mol.im/a/7983919 Serious about crackers | ||
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Wow, I was suppose to fly over to Heathrow from Newark later today but flight was cancelled due to Caira. Flying tomorrow instead, maybe we will get a shot at that record. | |||
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| As Extraordinary as Everyone Else  |
I saw on the news yesterday that there is some sort of “super jet stream” over the Atlantic. I wonder if several of the East bound pilots will try and out do each other.... ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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I can only imagine the surprise of the customs, security and ramp crews as three wide bodies, all show up way earlier than expected.  How the fuck did you guys get here so fast?! | |||
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Imagine flying west bound. The flight under normal conditions west bound is abysmal. Hard on the hemorrhoids. Figure a few extra hours or possibly a fuel stop. Awake not woke | |||
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We had a 179 knots on the nose a few days ago, going west over the north atlantic. We didn't shed it until we went feet dry at Canada. While the jetstream can give some impressive numbers on the tail, it also brings the potential for some severe clear air turbulence, especially in the boundary layers where the air isn't moving so fast. | |||
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^^^^^ This is why I'll NEVER bid to fly long-haul. N-E-V-E-R... "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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Last winter (Feb 2019) I had 206 on the nose flying from PWM to MEM, new record for me. Don't have to be doing long haul to get those winds. Last Thurs flew SYR to MEM and back, then jump seated home. Had 170 knots in the face from SYR to MEM, block time was 3:27. Some of that was deicing, maybe 15 mins of delay. Going back up there with the tail wind our block time was 1:57. It was pretty bumpy all day as well, everybody was complaining about the rides but our boxes were strangely quiet.  | |||
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Couple years back I flew MSP-LHR riding the jet stream, we arrived 1 hour 45 minutes ahead of schedule. Then we circled London in the stack for two hours so I got in 15 minutes late. I was pissed. | |||
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Oh, had to reread the title.....SUB-Sonic. Okay. At first, I thought this was going to be a thread about the Concord. Which did London to New York in like 3.5 hours IIRC.  . | |||
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The 747 is OK at 800 MPH? I was not aware it was capable of that speed. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Yoop: Airspeed is different than ground speed. They were likely flying at typical airspeed, but with the tail wind, they were moving faster over the ground. -.---.----.. -.---.----.. -.---.----.. It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws. | |||
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posting without pants |
Hold my beer.... Strive to live your life so when you wake up in the morning and your feet hit the floor, the devil says "Oh crap, he's up." | |||
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The 800 mph is ground speed, not air speed. Here's an analogy: You are aboard a train that is traveling at 60 mph. You get out of your seat and head for the dining car. If you walk forward in the train, with a normal walking speed of 3 mph, your speed with respect to the landscape that you are passing, is 63 mph -- the train's 60 mph plus your 3 mph. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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It would be nice for the Queen of the Skies to hang onto this record a while. | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
I suspect she will, for quite a while. Serious about crackers | |||
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Jokes on them, the gate was occupied when they landed.  _____________________________________ "We must not allow a mine shaft gap." | |||
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Alienator |
That's pretty cool. I just got back from Taiwan and noticed a tail wind from 123-135 knots. SIG556 Classic P220 Carry SAS Gen 2 SAO SP2022 9mm German Triple Serial P938 SAS P365 FDE P322 FDE Psalm 118:24 "This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" | |||
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"Ground Speed?" Would that not be "Ocean Speed"? Since they were not over any ground? My Native American Name: "Runs with Scissors" | |||
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 הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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