flyboy0681 Posted January 12, 2015 Report Posted January 12, 2015 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11337617/Jet-stream-blasts-BA-plane-across-Atlantic-in-record-time.html Quote
Jeff_S Posted January 12, 2015 Report Posted January 12, 2015 That's quite a jet stream. I read the article quickly, but it seemed that the author either didn't quite understand the relationship between airspeed and ground speed, or didn't bother to clarify that for the reader. The section about those speeds being "well in tolerance with the jets' designs" means that someone, somewhere, thought the planes were actually breaking the sound barrier. It makes good headlines, anyway...why let truth get in the way?! Quote
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