Luxair From Luxembourg, joined Jan 2001, 743 posts, RR: 2 Posted (11 years 9 months 4 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 1734 times:
My fastest was on the way back from Tenerife (canary islands) to Ams in a Martinair
Airbus A310 and the captain told us that we flew with 1050 km/h!!! What was your
fastest flight and on wich AC was it?
DLL10 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (11 years 9 months 4 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 1608 times:
On a British Airways 744 back in 1996 we covered the distance between Boston and London Heathrow in 4 hours and 52 minutes !!! That was definitely the fastest I've been on !
DLL10 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 7, posted (11 years 9 months 4 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 1589 times:
It is unlikely, YOERI1970, but it actually happened. I was a very rough flight in parts, as with altitude changes the winds changed dramatically. We had a groundspeed well above 600kts, but airspeed was of course lower. I have never before or after crossed the Atlantic in less than 6 hours. But even the captain said it was rare.
VgnAtl747 From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 1492 posts, RR: 2 Reply 9, posted (11 years 9 months 4 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 1579 times:
DLL 10- I can't remember the speed, but I crossed EWR-LHR in about 5:45 hours. A very rare thing indeed. Strong Tail Wind
Lewis From Greece, joined Jul 1999, 3448 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (11 years 9 months 4 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 1571 times:
I flew from Athens to Dubai with Olympic on a 707. I think that it was over 1000km/h. The aircraft was pretty empty and the 707 is pretty fast, isn't it?
EWRvirgin From United States of America, joined May 2001, 358 posts, RR: 2 Reply 14, posted (11 years 9 months 4 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1531 times:
>Virgin Atlantic, you won't believe it, but in 1998 >>(october don't remember the day) i flew EWR-LHR on an >>old 742 BA in 5h50mins!!!!
>I didn't know it was rare!!!!
It actually isn't rare at all. That is about VS usual flight time for that segment during certain times of the year. I'd say the times over a year's period will avg 6hrs.
Modesto2 From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 2634 posts, RR: 6 Reply 16, posted (11 years 9 months 4 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1522 times:
CV990A From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 1391 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (11 years 9 months 4 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 1496 times:
BluebellyA380 From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 166 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (11 years 9 months 4 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 1490 times:
It would be more interesting if you could clock those speeds westbound !
Airways1 From United Kingdom, joined Jul 1999, 553 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (11 years 9 months 4 weeks 9 hours ago) and read 1490 times:
Loganair used to offer a flight from Westray to Papa Westray, which had a scheduled flight time of 2 minutes (yes, two minutes!), with the BN Islander, if I remember correctly.
27 Funny: mine was on the way back from boston to zurich, on a A330 we flew about 950 kph.
28 CoAir@IAH: Not fast, as we cruised at 3000 feet for 10 minutes in a DC-9-14. Route? IAH-HOU, November 1986 on Continental's Houston Proud Express.
29 SSTjumbo: UA 744 SFO-ORD took 3hrs 10min. That seems pretty fast, but I don't know.
30 Ceilidh: Concorde, 36 times. Have no idea what the fastest segment was, but as I flew round trip JFK-OSH-JFK in 1988 at subsonic speeds, that was definitely th
31 GDB: Mach 2.02 Concorde, Washington-London in 1993. Respect x36 to you Ceilidh! Will we be seeing you again soon?
32 Prebennorholm: March 1998, Swissair A320 from Zurich to Madrid. GPS indication on drop down display peaked at 1102 km/h or 685 mph. It was a strong north-westerly wi
33 Ceilidh: GDB - I'm off to Africa for a couple of weeks, but then yes, I'll be back Stateside again. With any luck, I might even be able to do it on my 37th SSC
34 Ganymed: Forgot one, 1080 kms/h on LH 744 'Thuringen' ,Frankfort to Mexico/Benito Juarez in Nov.1997
35 Airplanetire: Swissair from ATL to ZRH. I'm not sure how long the flight was. I think that it was about 8 hours. The speed was 607 mph for almost the whole flight t
36 Big777jet: I flew on United B747-422 SFO-ORD on 18 Oct 1994 was 3 hours 13 minutes! I used my stopwatch from lift off and touchdown. ORD-SFO B747-122 on May 9, 1
37 Tom_EDDF: October 1999, Houston/IAH to Frankfurt/FRA, on an LH Airbus a340-311 (D-AIGF) over Newfoundland. Airshow indicated 1120km/h GS.
38 Airbus_forever: my fastest experienca was over the Himalaya with a NVR 332 we came up to a speed of 1053 km/h
39 Lehpron: My fastest was on a flight to Seoul, South Korea in a Korean Air B747-400 and their looping movie map showed that we were going 1111 km/h. Lehpron
40 SAS_A330-300: December 23rd, 1995 Premiair DC-10-10, Las Palmas - Stockholm 1024 km/h / 640 mph / 552 nmph!!! Simon Larsson
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