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During the winter you can do up to around 150mph in the jet stream.

There is an amateur radio ballooning group (CA Near Space Project) that sent up a balloon that went from CA to Algeria, 6,236 miles, in 57 hours for an average of 109mph. It doubled the previous record of 3,361 miles.

News article.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/amateur-radio-balloon-makes-record-transcontinental-transatlantic-flight

Original article from CNSP.
http://www.cnsp-inc.com/cnsp-11/

They also had a second balloon that made a trans-Atlantic flight and landed in Morocco.
http://www.cnsp-inc.com/cnsp-18/

29 posted on 10/31/2013 7:00:12 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)

To: Jack Hydrazine

Thanks! Didn’t know about that.

While the balloon w/GPS & transmitter is cool, I’m most impressed that independent receivers turned into the data acquisition system. Nice.

31 posted on 10/31/2013 7:08:26 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)

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