[DUMBGRUNT]

The old bird still has a lot of life.

[Vaquero]

That’s ground speed. The jet stream is a wonderful thing.

[yarddog]

Once when flying from Tulsa to Atlanta, the pilot came on the speaker and said we would arrive on time despite leaving late.

He said there was a tail wind and it was really blowing. I guess it does make a difference.

[plsvn]

Four hours 56 minutes isn’t “just over 4 hours.” It’s more like “just about 5 hours.”

[srmanuel]

In my earlier corporate days, when I was traveling 80-90% of the time for work reasons..I accumulated over 1,000,000 Frequent Flyer miles..

I used 300,000 for two round trip Concorde Tickets, my wife and I flew NYC to London at a top speed of Mach 2....pretty cool...

[HamiltonJay]

That was one hell of a tail wind..

[Redcitizen]

I rode on a 747 to and from the middle east. I liked that plane ride.

[PGR88]

747 is still setting records.

[Oscar in Batangas]

On a good day, even an old 747 can be a Concorde junior

[neodad]

Speedbird indeed!

[CodeToad]

One of my favorite flights was taking a Diamond aircraft around Mt Evens in Colorado. Coming down the front range we hit a ground speed of 205 kts. For a bird designed to do about 140 kts, that was fun.

[PAR35]

how incredible it is to get across the Atlantic in just over four hours.

No. Fake news.

four hours and 56 minutes is fractionally under 5 hours, not "just over 4 hours". Caleb's engaging in some intellectual dishonesty here. A fiction writer might prefer the term 'poetic license', however.

[rktman]

Betting the return was a tad slower.✈🚣

[blueunicorn6]

They had a record going 825 mph?

I wonder if it was my old Herb Alpert record?

I thought my buddy Leroy took it.

Whipped Cream And Other Delights

He was in love with the lady on the album cover.

[virgil]

Go speedbird!

[cyberstoic]

The speed of sound is roughly 767 miles per hour depending on temperature and humidity. How is this a subsonic flight?

[JohnBovenmyer]

Must have been a drag flying the other way that day.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The G-forces of going that fast can leave a permanent mark.

[SamAdams76]

If the poor passengers from the Mayflower could only have waited about 400 years, they would have been able to come over here in relative comfort.

[Malsua]

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.

[grey_whiskers]

...intentionally? Controlled?