747 crossing Atlantic in storm may have broken JFK-LHR subsonic record

[davidpt40]

https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1468092.html

The details are still coming out, but British Airlines flight BA112 flew from New York to London in 4 hours 56 minutes.  Extreme tailwinds due to storm Ciara made ground speeds of 800mph possible.

I see on flight tracker there is a big dashed section over the middle of the Atlantic.  I assume this is where the plane is out of radar range.  Unless the plane was tracked by GPS, is there any way to know how fast this plane was really going over the middle of the Atlantic?

[Meatwad]

Its dashed because there is no ADS-B coverage over the middle of the ocean. A lot of those flight tracker sites are possible because of people hosting ADS-B and the newer UAT receivers at their house and uploading data to the server. I am a host myself.

This is a screenshot from my hosting site here from a Raspberry Pi running Piaware into a flightaware dongle. Not a lot out right now. West and SW are blocked toward the horizon because of trees several hundred feet away. Once in a while I can see some military transports from Scott AFB, but they are not shown on the national map, just locally here.

[Shuffler]

Thanks for that nice slice of your pi.

[TyFoo]

https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1468092.html

The details are still coming out, but British Airlines flight BA112 flew from New York to London in 4 hours 56 minutes.  Extreme tailwinds due to storm Ciara made ground speeds of 800mph possible.

I see on flight tracker there is a big dashed section over the middle of the Atlantic.  I assume this is where the plane is out of radar range.  Unless the plane was tracked by GPS, is there any way to know how fast this plane was really going over the middle of the Atlantic?

Try FlightAware and type in BAW112, select the flight. Scroll to the 8 Feb flight and select. Go to the big (i) on the bottom of the page and select it. Then look at the Track Log at the top of the page. You will see around the 20:27 mark they attain 800 and it last just under 30 minutes.

[Busher]

https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1468092.html

The details are still coming out, but British Airlines flight BA112 flew from New York to London in 4 hours 56 minutes.  Extreme tailwinds due to storm Ciara made ground speeds of 800mph possible.

I see on flight tracker there is a big dashed section over the middle of the Atlantic.  I assume this is where the plane is out of radar range.  Unless the plane was tracked by GPS, is there any way to know how fast this plane was really going over the middle of the Atlantic?

Always a major treat for the crew if they are on the last leg of a 3 day cycle