A plane from New York to London set a record for a transatlantic flight thanks to a hurricane - ForumDaily
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A plane from New York to London set a record for a transatlantic flight thanks to a hurricane

British Airways broke the record for the fastest ever subsonic flight from New York to London, reaching a top speed of 825 mph (1327 km / h), writes CNN. The liner was “helped” in this by Hurricane Chiara, which was raging in Britain.

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The Boeing 747 took off on the night of February 8-9 and reached its destination in 4 hours 56 minutes - this is almost 1,5 hours faster than usual.

"The flight was in a stronger than normal jet stream with winds of over 200 mph propelling the aircraft," explains CNN senior meteorologist Brandon Miller. Storm Chiara is responsible for bringing damaging wind gusts and massive waves to the UK, Ireland and other parts of northern Europe over the weekend. The jet stream is a fast-moving "river of air" high in the atmosphere, at the altitude at which commercial airliners fly. This flow is responsible for transporting weather systems around the planet."

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The plane landed at Heathrow Airport at 4:43 in the morning, almost 1,5 hours ahead of schedule. Its top speed during flight was 825 mph (1327 km / h), according to Flightradar24, an online flight tracking service.

According to the platform, the average flight time between London and New York is 6 hours 13 minutes.

Representatives of Flightradar24 announced a record flight on their Twitter account, writing: “If we are not mistaken, BA will accept the Norwegian fastest subsonic flight New York-London.”

photo: twitter.com/flightradar24

The service added that the British Airways flight arrived one minute faster than the Virgin Airbus A350, which landed at Heathrow moments later, as well as another Virgin plane that touched down an hour later - its flight time took 3 minutes longer.

All three flights significantly beat the previous record of 5 hours 13 minutes, set by Norwegian in January 2018.

Even though the British Airways plane was apparently traveling faster than the speed of sound - 767 mph - it would not have broken the sound barrier because it was surrounded by air. Even at more than 800 mph, the Boeing 747 was moving much slower than the speed of sound relative to the air around it.

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A BA spokesman said: “We always give preference to safety rather than speed records, but our highly qualified pilots made the most of the conditions to deliver customers to London in advance.”

Hurricane Chiara made landfall in the UK over the weekend. Two of Europe's busiest airports - one in Frankfurt, Germany, the other in Amsterdam, the Netherlands - canceled more than 100 flights each due to the storm.

A company spokeswoman told CNN that BA, like all other airlines flying to and from the UK, was hit by Chiara, canceled some of its flights, and combined others.

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