BAW = Callsign Speedbird - Literally.
Jan 18, 2018, 1:21 pm
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The Telegraph are keeping an eye on things:
BA loses transatlantic time record to Norwegian thanks to ferocious jet stream
Palmer
Jan 18, 2018, 2:06 pm
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I flew back from Orlando on Tuesday night and we did it in 7 hours - I saw a tail wind of over 200mph at one point on the screen! Sadly I didn't manage to catch the ground speed or take a photo. Cruising at 39,000 feet. Tried to look on FR24 at the history of the route to see if it provided ground speed but alas it would seem not.
Jan 18, 2018, 3:26 pm
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Had something similar early last December. You'd have to check exactly but we clocked in 200mph tailwinds too and made up a lot of time (albeit still 3+ hours late departing).
Jan 18, 2018, 4:09 pm
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The Telegraph are keeping an eye on things:
BA loses transatlantic time record to Norwegian thanks to ferocious jet stream
Palmer
I've actually been lucky enough to meet the bloke who set it.
Jan 18, 2018, 5:29 pm
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Certainly 'slowbird' recently: 11-Jan BWI-LHR was nearly 9 hours due to ETOPS, and 17-Jan LHR-BWI was 9h 3m due to a fast jet stream - unfortunately the wrong way (only managing just over 400 mph at 40,000')
Jan 18, 2018, 7:50 pm
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1 hr 54 mins 56.4 secs by USAF Major James V. Sullivan, and Major Noel F. Widdifield, flying a Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird eastwards on 1 September 1974
Fastest flight across the Atlantic | Guinness World Records
Jan 19, 2018, 5:55 am
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