[Zathras]

Years ago I got in a tail wind from Portland to San Jose.
Arrived almost an hr early

[Ann Archy]

Think about flying the OPPOSITE way!! UGH!

[Nervous Tick]

>> Each winter, the jet stream intensifies.

See?? Climate Change causes it! I knew it!

[LukeL]

Ground speed vs air speed.

[vikingd00d]

So, the greenies are freaking out that “globull warming” is causing plane to use less fossil fuels.

[bigbob]

Boom!

[KingLudd]

” ... arriving on time or early, thanks to a more powerful jet stream ... “

Thank God. Every second on an airplane is like 7 years to you and me.

I’ve spent better time in Cook County Jail than on almost any commercial flight.

[Political Junkie Too]

That happened to someone I was tracking who was flying to New York from Houston. FlightAware clocked the plane flying at a groundspeed of 750 mph.

-PJ

[BipolarBob]

Trumps Fault.

I beat the NY Times for the scoop.

[rktman]

Westbound, not so much. 🛫

[Third Person]

time travel

[crusty old prospector]

The ones flying from Europe to America were getting passed by the Titanic.

[SkyDancer]

Yeah, but heading back? I did a flight where my ground speed was in access of five hundred kts, on the return flight it was barely over four hundred ... this was flying first east then coming back west.

[chaosagent]

When this happened on Twilight Zone, they ended up back with the dinosaurs after traveling back in time.

[George J. Jetso]

I remember seeing an episode of this on The Twilight Zone. They end up traveling through time.

[FrankRizzo890]

I was on a Delta 777 (I think it was) coming out of Narita heading for Portland, and we got in one MONSTER of a jet stream, and the “entertainment system moving map” thing said we were over 760 MPH. Had never had that happen before, or since.

[EC Washington]

Caught a tail wind from LA to Chicago - Air speed was over 700 - got to Midway and our gate wasn’t ready - sat on the ground for 45 minutes waiting to deplane.

[Texas Fossil]

Question?

If the jet stream is moving faster than the speed of sound, will the airplane experience the boom when breaking the sound barrier?

My gut tells me NO. They are moving with the air mass, not ground speed.

[ken in texas]

In 1971 flying from LA to Boston had a tailwind that kicked us up to over 700 mph. The pilot made an excited announcement about how this was the fastest he had ever flown, and we arrived about 90 minutes early.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I took the Concorde from London to DC and arrived before I left.