https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/02/09/british-air-record-flight-speed-atlantic/
Is there a point where the headwinds traveling E -> W would be so strong it makes more sense to fly eastward around the globe to get to a westerly destination? I would imagine it would have to be a flight ~1/2 way around the world, to begin with.
Unsure if the flight would change direction or find a different flight level.
If not a J58, then a GE YJ93 or a Kuznetsov NK-32.
British Airways' Boeing 747-436 made the fastest flight from New York to London in 4 hours 56 minutes, landing two hours ahead of schedule, as Flight Radar 24 reported.
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According to the site, the maximum speed of the aircraft during flight BA112 exceeded 1327 kilometers per hour. The average flight time from New York to London is 6 hours 13 minutes.
“If we're not mistaken, British Airways has broken the Norwegian airline’s fastest subsonic flight speed from New York to London,” according to Flight Radar 24 statement.
Boeing 747-436 flew out of New York on February 8 at 18.47 and landed in London at 4.43, almost two hours earlier than the planned arrival time - 6.30 local time.
The cause was Hurricane Ciara, due to which the tailwind speed during the flight exceeded 80 meters per second. According to the newspaper, the flight passenger said that before takeoff, the pilot said that the plane would fly in a stream of high-speed wind and arrive at London airport before the storm.
Hurricane Ciara has already led to the fact that some flights are canceled in the UK, some areas of the country are flooded, trees are felled. In the Netherlands, an “orange” level of weather hazard has been declared. According to forecasts, in the coastal regions of the country, the wind will reach speeds of 120 kilometers per hour.
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 31%. (I'm a bot)
> A British Airways jet is thought to have made the fastest subsonic flight from New York to London thanks to Storm Ciara.
> As Ciara's high winds blew into Britain on Sunday morning, the pilot managed to shave an improbable 102 minutes off its scheduled flight time.
> It wasn't the only flight to benefit from unusual tailwinds, according to flight tracking website Flightradar24, which revealed it was only one minute faster than a Virgin Atlantic flight which was due to land around the same time.
> The Virgin Airbus A350-1041 made the same flight in four hours and 57 minutes.
> The airline regained the subsonic record from Norwegian, whose Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner flew from New York to London Gatwick in five hours and 13 minutes in 2018.
> The quickest transatlantic passenger flight was set by Concorde in 1996 - which flew at more than twice the speed of sound for a journey of two hours and 52 minutes.
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