Posted on 02/09/2020 3:27:05 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
With a little help from a massive tailwind, of course.
British Airways Boeing 747 traveled from New York to London in just four hours and 56 minutes, hitting a top ground speed of 825 miles per hour and setting a subsonic flight record for the route.
That 250+ mph tailwind meant that the 747’s true airspeed was still below the speed of sound, but that doesn’t take away from how incredible it is to get across the Atlantic in just over four hours.
It should be mentioned that while flight BA112 smashed the subsonic record, the fastest time from NYC to London was set by the engineering marvel, Concorde. The aircraft's top commercial flight hit speeds of 1,350 mph and accomplished the route in just two hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds.
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Flew Delta to Tucson from JFK last February. The pilot went up to high cruising altitude then had to drop down to around 25.000 ft due to turbulence. Then the pilot came on the speaker. Explaining that they would have to land in Albuquerque because they were running low of fuel due to the thick air at lower altitudes.
I suggested to my fellow passengers that maybe we should chip in for gas.
The speed of sound is roughly 767 miles per hour depending on temperature and humidity. How is this a subsonic flight?
Must have been a drag flying the other way that day.
What is meant here is that crossing was close to 4 hours and another hour was spent circling in a pattern and taxiing to the gate.
...the fastest time from NYC to London was set by the engineering marvel, Concorde. The aircraft's top commercial flight hit speeds of 1,350 mph and accomplished the route in just two hours, 52 minutes and 59 seconds.
BS -- the SR-71 flew it in 1 hour, 54 minutes, 56.4 seconds -- and that was with one (unnecessary) midflight refueling.
“Was there any ground reference to the ground speed?”
GPS
The aircraft was flying at its regular subsonic rate, while the air it was in was travelling at 250 mph in the same direction. The airspeed was subsonic, while the ground speed was 825 mph.
I was on a BA flight NYC—>Heathrow some years back and the pilot came on the horn and told us were doing about 760MPH. Granted not quite 825 but probably the fastest I’ve ever traveled.
I’ve always kept track ever since and not seen us get anywhere near that despite lots of travel.
If you were with Nolan Ryan on a plane going 670 mph and Nolan went to the back of the plane and fired off a 97mph fastball towards the cockpit, would the ball then be traveling at the speed of sound?
Wow, what was that like? Did you get a lot of G-force at the take off or it was just gradual build up? How long was that trip, 2 hours?
No. The journos are just not that good with math.
On a windy day in Santa Barbara I watched what I think was a Fieseler Storch do touch and goes using virtually no runway. He’d lift straight up, get blown back a bit and land.
I bought a small sailboat last summer as I live near the water, and even in strong wind I could tell the thing doesn’t move that fast, so I was thinking ships like the Mayflower must have taken forever to cross the ocean. No wonder people died.
That’s an easy one, boss.
You just use Eisenstein’s Theory Of Relations.
Carry the two.....square root of a carrot.......
The answer is:
Trick question.
Nolan Ryan always flies First Class.
He’s in the front of the boat.
I saw a show on one of the history type channels where an SR-71 pilot told of flying over Libya. He said his missile detector lit up. I think he said it was his first time ever but he opened the throttles wide open.
The plane just kept getting faster and faster and seemed to like it. He left the missiles behind and before he realized it he was half way to Sicily and had to slow down.
...intentionally? Controlled?
I got in one between Portland and San Jose.
We arrived 1hr early.
I think we were 600+ ground speed
If you are flying west to east.
It would be interesting to see what the flying time from London to NYC was on the same day.
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