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Old Aug 22, 2017, 12:38 pm
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Originally Posted by tangey
What that got to do with measuring the speed of a plane ?

The speed of sound is 767 MPH.
The speed of the plane was 745 MPH.
You have to have a common point of reference for speeds, otherwise comparisons are meaningless. It is implicit in a "speed of sound" statement that we are measuring with respect to the fluid that is transmitting a hypothetical sound.

If you want, you can say that a plane sitting on the tarmac is travelling at 1000 mph, because that is how fast the Earth is rotating (at its equator). Or I am travelling at 515,000 mph because that is how fast the solar system orbits the centre of the galaxy. But that none means I am travelling faster than the speed of sound.

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Old Aug 22, 2017, 12:59 pm
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Originally Posted by HilFly
We may have been on the same flight - sub 5 hours but I can't remember the exact time. But same tour of LHR and checking the records announcement.

I also had an unusually fast LHR - BOS once when the usual headwind was a tailwind - again, I don't remember the numbers.
If this was late August/Early September then very possibly.^
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Old Aug 22, 2017, 1:03 pm
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Old Sep 2, 2017, 6:28 pm
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The seat TV screen on BA214 BOS-LHR last night showed 739 mph just east of St Johns. Not a night to try the soup. The speed of sound is 761 mph. Would the pilot have had to keep below the sound barrier?
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Old Sep 2, 2017, 6:30 pm
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Have a look at this recent thread which discusses the same BAW = Callsign Speedbird - Literally.

Unfortunately you weren't actually close to the speed of sound.
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Old Sep 2, 2017, 6:39 pm
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Many thanks. Interesting educational read.
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Old Sep 30, 2017, 6:49 am
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Looks like some fast W-E TATL flights tonight - 150 knot tail winds mid-Atlantic - with flights booked to arrive >1 hour early!
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Old Sep 30, 2017, 8:42 am
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Several BA pilots tweeted their flight times, which were quite impressive. There was a DFW LHR just above 7:30 flight time.
I am flying from IAH tonight and it is expected to be as fast (and apparently bumpy too).
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Old Sep 30, 2017, 8:49 am
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Originally Posted by CKBA
Looks like some fast W-E TATL flights tonight - 150 knot tail winds mid-Atlantic - with flights booked to arrive >1 hour early!
Last night's BA275 (LHR-LAS) departed 1hr 6 mins late and arrived 4 minutes early!
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Old Sep 30, 2017, 9:13 am
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Originally Posted by CKBA
Looks like some fast W-E TATL flights tonight - 150 knot tail winds mid-Atlantic - with flights booked to arrive >1 hour early!
I wonder whether this is to do with the (ex-)hurricanes that are crossing the Atlantic at the moment; Lee first, followed by Maria.
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Old Sep 30, 2017, 9:14 am
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5 hours 10 mins BOS-LHR last night.
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Old Sep 30, 2017, 9:47 am
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Originally Posted by Globaliser
I wonder whether this is to do with the (ex-)hurricanes that are crossing the Atlantic at the moment; Lee first, followed by Maria.
Indeed - both Maria and Lee have been swanning around doing nothing for a while (as did Jose), then suddenly being picked up in the jet stream.

As others note - bumpy ride in store for all - but quick!
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Old Oct 1, 2017, 1:26 am
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As expected this was fast: 8h30 to do the jump IAH-FRA. Smooth as well, except for some light turbulences when we entered the stream above Washington.
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Old Jan 18, 2018, 12:08 pm
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Originally Posted by ahmetdouas
Nice one! Yeah, I heard about that JFK superspeed flight!
Doing some Googling, it seems the record is this one:

Jet stream blasts BA plane across Atlantic in record time - Telegraph

So 745 MPH, not 720 = ) And 5 hours 15 mins JFK-LHR!
The Telegraph are keeping an eye on things:

BA loses transatlantic time record to Norwegian thanks to ferocious jet stream

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Old Jan 18, 2018, 12:17 pm
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Stealing their passengers and stealing their time records... Soon they'll have T5.
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