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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Apparently Caleb Jacobs is ignorant of the relationship between minutes and hours.
Yes, I believe you are right.
Meantime the flight going the opposite direction is 3 a little late, but expected to arrive Tuesday afternoon.
Zero East, 90 North.
A truly wonderful vignette about the penultimate comm.
Did you miss John GlennUSMC’s, “LA, I’m showing 17,500+. confirm.” ?
90 North does not require a Longitude.
Math-challenged author Caleb Jacobs wrote that the plane made “New York to London in just four hours and 56 minutes.”
Then, just a little later, he explained that the plane made it in “just over four hours.”
Rode my first 747 from Chicago to Anchorage, then on to Tokyo. That was in October 1976. What a wonderful trip. The coolest thing of all is that the flight must have been a back-haul and they needed the plane in Tokyo, because it was 95% empty! I think every paying passenger had a dedicated stewardess as well as an entire row to stretch out in. Only time that has happened and I’ll never forget it!
Was that event a long while past? There are not many Storches still airworthy. Have you ever seen Mike Patey’s DRACO? He stuffed a PT-6 into a WILGA 2000 and it could perform like that!
Of course, the most likely explanation is Caleb cannot solve 2 + 2, so he went into journalism to avoid the hard math.
Yeah, but can it do the Kessel run in slightly over 12 parsecs?
but can it do the Kessel run in slightly over 12 parsecs?
Don’t want to push that one too close and be consumed by a black hole?
Was that event a long while past?
“ 90 North does not require a Longitude.“
Any ‘higher’ and it will require a declination!
So, they did a subsonic supersonic run....
British Airways call sign is Speedbird. Not a joke, that really is their call sign.
I live near Stuttgart, Germany. We've had a steady 30 mph wind since last night. Trees down and I keep having to check and make sure my grill doesn't end up in my pond, again.
So, they did a subsonic supersonic run....
and still not hypersonic.
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