High-speed jet flies across Atlantic in fewer than five hours, an unofficial TransatlanticFlight record
Four hours and 56 minutes. That’s all the time that it took for British Airways Flight 112 to fly from New York’s JFK International Airport to London Heathrow early Sunday. According to the flight tracking service Flightradar24, the flight broke the previous transatlantic record of five hours and 13 minutes between New York and London.
The jet stream is the zone of strong winds around 30,000 feet high in the atmosphere, along which storms track. Many commercial aircraft hitch a ride along the jet stream to give themselves a speed boost. During the winter, the North Atlantic jet stream is at its most powerful, slingshotting flights eastward across the Atlantic and slowing aircraft moving to the west, often adding more than an hour of flying time to the return trip, and occasionally even a refuelling stop.
Supersonic commercial aircraft, specifically the British Airways Concorde, have crossed the Atlantic in far less time, with its record still standing at two hours and 53 minutes. — Flightradar24 February 9, 2020The jet stream that powered the flight across the Atlantic gained such strength due to the pressure difference between an unusually intense zone of low-pressure east of Greenland and a high-pressure zone to the south.
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