The passenger plane brushed the sound barrier: Flight British Airways from Las Vegas to Heathrow in London at some point reached a speed of 1310 km/h. It's about 420 km/h faster than the typical maximum speed of such flight. The storm raging over the Atlantic made the British plane accelerated to a record size.
The lines use the wind: The aircraft mentioned thanks to this “wind top -up” landed in Great Britain 45 minutes ahead of time. Airlines often take advantage of the fact of strong winds above the Atlantic to increase speed and save on fuel. For this reason flight The other way is up to an hour longer because the planes must fly “against the wind”.
The wind mixes in the sky: Until now, the fastest flight of a passenger aircraft was recorded in 2020 during a flight from New York to London. The plane covered this route in just 4 hours and 56 minutes, i.e. 2 hours and 4 minutes faster than usual. He achieved then speed 1344 km/h. The wind that accelerated the British plane does not stop blowing, which is why metrolologists expect that this record will be broken. Eowyn is crazy. In the vicinity of Ireland it was blowing at a speed of 183 km/h. Airlines in this region were forced cancel over 1000 flights, i.e. about 20 percent all.
There will be more and more records? – We have evidence that the strongest winds will accelerate by about 2 percent for every degree of global insulation Celsius – explained Paul Williams, a professor of meteorology at the University of Reading, in an interview with BBC Weather. He added that this could increase this frequency of turbulence compared to the 1960s three times.
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Sources: Daily Mail“The Independent“, BBC Weather