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Three commercial flights from the U.S. flew at over 800 miles per hour late Saturday, propelled by near record-high winds over the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore area. CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave has more on how normal, and safe, that is.
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@rylans.5365 5 месяцев назад

I know every aviation enthusiast cringed at “Virginia Atlantic” 😂😂 😭

@millennialaviation 5 месяцев назад

That pronunciation was disgusting

@ltcole5206 5 месяцев назад

I had to replay that only because I work in travel and I knew she meant Virgin. I can see how someone either typed it wrong or it was just a slip of the tongue. The AA flight to Portugal is the only one I have been on personally. I love whenever I travel and we get good wind!!! It is amazing.

@travelcaribbean2009 5 месяцев назад

Yep, it was disgusting the way she pronounced it.. 😭

@jjmmac707 5 месяцев назад

Just a newsreader. A low information employee of a mainstream media enterprise!

@ginger_breadman 5 месяцев назад

⁠@@jjmmac707verses an even lower information employee of some fringe right wing media? 😂

@EdwinChenLoo 5 месяцев назад

5min video which they could have summarized in 20s: Boeing 787 has a cruise speed of 650mph. Due to the jet streams of 150mph (max of 275mph) they reached speeds between 800 and 840mph. BTW, the speed of sound is 770mph so they flew over mach 1 relative to ground but at cruise speed relative to the jet stream.

@rdspam 5 месяцев назад

“Mach 1 relative to the ground” is a nonsensical sentence.

@LLH7202 5 месяцев назад

Correct. Mach number is the ratio of true airspeed to the speed of sound, so Mach relative to the ground is meaningless. @@rdspam

@andrasbodo 5 месяцев назад

These planes are not engineered to speed over 975-max 1006 KM/H period - that is 600 MPH... the person who posted this confused miles with kilometers... neither the engines nor the wings are not designed over 600 miles speed at 39 thousand feet

@GhostmanNtech 5 месяцев назад

I thought of the same thing my brain in exploding right now lol

@Mr.Spliffington 5 месяцев назад

Thank you

@andrewandres148 5 месяцев назад

When this plane hits 888 miles an hour, your gonna see some serious s***.

@robguyatt9602 5 месяцев назад

What's special about 888?

@hyun-shik7327 5 месяцев назад

@@robguyatt9602time travel but for planes

@congoballs9725 5 месяцев назад

that is more then Mach 1

@danielavila5081 5 месяцев назад

@@robguyatt9602🤣 Haven't you seen Back to the Future??? When the Delorean Time Machine hits 88mph your gonna see some serious 💩 just add an 8 to the aircraft and figure out the joke it's a good one.

@danielavila5081 5 месяцев назад

@@congoballs9725 At this point Maverick would say, hold my beer

@miked51 5 месяцев назад

No Aviation expert should ever try to explain how planes fly to a talking head on network TV.

@johnstuartsmith 5 месяцев назад

Most of the people watching network TV need talking heads to break down the incomprehensible"expertese" into "stupidese" for them.

@jameshoffa7085 5 месяцев назад

But you play flight sim so you think you're an expert too right? lol

@benhabot9526 5 месяцев назад

TRUE

@733t0ne-yd6qf 5 месяцев назад

No.. a whamen.

@nexpro6985 5 месяцев назад

He had to explain it three times

@Bruce.-Wayne 5 месяцев назад

Lol.....😂😂...

@mbrownie22 5 месяцев назад

Right because it was way over her head

@mushroomsteve 5 месяцев назад

"Is it safe to go that fast?" "As I was saying, the air speed is subsonic...."

@jstelm 5 месяцев назад

Love how she asked if it’s safe. Like… duhhh

@shawnsg 5 месяцев назад

You could see it click in her head that he had just answered the question.

@Swordsfor200Alex 5 месяцев назад

I would have her do this experiment while driving. I have in rare cases during spring storm seasons had the chance to drive with 40-50 mph winds across the plains. Once we had gusts up to 60 mph from the rear of the vehicle. If you drove 60mph and rolled the window down and stuck, your hand outside - there was no wind or wind noise. It was the oddest feeling and pretty cool to experience traveling at the same speed of the wind.

@andrewandres148 5 месяцев назад

I can tell you driving back to Minnesota a couple times heading east on the interstates, with the wind kickin the back my car was getting over 40 miles a gallon...

@mariouribe9092 5 месяцев назад

Amazing information…I wish I could feel that one day!

@Fucktheworld14020 5 месяцев назад

Thanks that explains kinda I guess what they are talking about in this video because I was confused lol

@andrew_owens7680 5 месяцев назад

But if you dropped your cap and had to go back for it, your arm would fly off.

@Adam-nw1vy 5 месяцев назад

@@Fucktheworld14020 The guy should have said "medium" instead of just saying the air around the airplane. It's like when you're inside a moving car and you don't feel moving because you do not experience relative motion between you and the surroundings. Just like the car is the "medium" you're moving in, the wind is the medium within which the airplane is moving.

@lieaorganasolo 5 месяцев назад

Its like those moving walkways in the airport. You moving at your pace but the walk way is also boasting your walk as well

@andrew2371 5 месяцев назад

Perfect comparison actually

@starventure 5 месяцев назад

You can use the same analogy to explain relativity as well. Works pretty good for both.

@cleversonsutil4495 5 месяцев назад

Exactly!

@neilfoster814 5 месяцев назад

A great way to explain the principal!

@lieaorganasolo 5 месяцев назад

@@starventure you are right. I think about how fast the earth is moving around the sun, us as a solar system as we speed thru the cosmos, and then you think OMG we havent "bumped" into anything yet?! Then you realize that email you was stressing about doesn't really matter , thank God for gravity, and it's all relative when think about our existence....I need to take a chill pill 😮‍💨

@rilkeanheart 5 месяцев назад

he should have said that it's like walking inside moving semi truck going 65 mph down the highway. inside you're walking 3 mph, but if someone on the street clocked you, you'd be going 68 mph. as far as the person inside the semi truck is concerned, there is no massive force acting on them so long as the truck speed is maintained (zero acceleration).

@thomaskim3128 5 месяцев назад

Bad Analogy. You will not get anywhere faster than the truck is moving (65mph) despite you moving 3mph inside the truck because your speed does not add to the whole system speed. Whereas the plane moved inside a global wind system so the added wind speed helped. Your semi is toooo small of a sytem.

@MrJhchrist 5 месяцев назад

@@thomaskim3128 Of course you get to your destination a little faster if you walk to the front of the truck instead of staying at the back of the truck.

@jonathantan2469 5 месяцев назад

Yes, but how heavy will the truck be in lemons, or bananas...?

@PhilMoskowitz 5 месяцев назад

@@thomaskim3128 Make the truck incredibly) longer or the distance travelled very short and the analogy works better.

@Jwellsuhhuh 5 месяцев назад

@@PhilMoskowitzhello fellow Americans, trains exist 🤯

@OptimusOne 5 месяцев назад

We always take advantage of the jet streams whenever we can. Not only it will take you faster to your destination, it also save the airlines fuel.

@FuhqEwe 5 месяцев назад

That’s great and all, but can you guys also make sure the wings have all their bolts, too? What the hell is going on in the aviation industry?

@OptimusOne 5 месяцев назад

@@FuhqEwe Boeing is trying to maximize their profits by cutting corners lol!

@patriots101 5 месяцев назад

@@FuhqEwe This is so cringe. 😅

@mylifeisdope916 5 месяцев назад

Does saving the company fuel come back on the pilots at all? Are there any benefits afforded the flight crew or anything?

@ScapoloMichael 5 месяцев назад

@@mylifeisdope916unlikely. It's all worked out ahead of the flight

@travelvideos 5 месяцев назад

I have only flew once in such a way. Not the smoothest flight, but it we arrived before the schedule. Doesn't make any difference if you are stuck in the airport after that.

@robr177 5 месяцев назад

I was on one that arrived 30 minutes early and had to wait 45 minutes for a gate because someone thought we'd actually be late and assigned our gate to someone else.

@solomonhilliard3938 5 месяцев назад

Usually when I'm on a flight that has arrived early we can't even land b/c they're not ready. We just circle the airport.

@JackBlackNinja 5 месяцев назад

Better than being on the plane

@jeffnorris1484 5 месяцев назад

It's not that hard to grasp....ever walk on a moving sidewalk @ the airport? 🤯

@velocityacoustics 5 месяцев назад

Yea, regardless you are moving X amount of speed relative to the ground whether you are running or on the moving sidewalk.

@Johnny-mq3mo 5 месяцев назад

That's a great example!!!

@marjoriemorris5849 5 месяцев назад

Yeah I love walking on those things!!!

@christianfriend7133 5 месяцев назад

Think of it like a boat on the river. The boat can go 20 MPH, while on the river that is carrying you is going 50 MPH. You are moving only 20 MPH on the river, yet with the 50 MPH river movement, that is combined of 70 MPH though the landmass.

@cutice 5 месяцев назад

Would it be like running on a train?

@koko4070 5 месяцев назад

⁠⁠@@cuticebasically yes if you are running at like 15 mph but the train is going 45 mph you would technically be going 60 mph relative to the ground which is like that 800+ mph ground speed they are showing with the plane. but you as the “plane” r only going 15 while running at a normal speed.

@northerniltree 5 месяцев назад

You must have class 150 rapids on your river, a canoeist's dream.

@davidhughes6048 5 месяцев назад

What about turning on a flashlight when you are travelling at the speed of light? 😏

@bbgun061 5 месяцев назад

That’s my usual example.

@pdeichert 5 месяцев назад

How do we go from speed record to airline bag check fees?!?!

@shawnsg 5 месяцев назад

It's airline related and they need something to talk about.

@marjoriemorris5849 5 месяцев назад

The anchor had the reporter totally flustered there. He thought he was about to get another question about airspeed/ground speed.

@dragbug100 5 месяцев назад

Geesh, they could have just used the example of the moving walk platforms in about every airport. Most people are familiar with them and would have helped people understand how the plane was going it's normal cruising speed but still clocking in at over 800 MPH.

@charliehustle9779 5 месяцев назад

Yes! I agree. I heard what he said but couldn’t quite conceptualize it.

@JohnShalamskas 5 месяцев назад

@@charliehustle9779 Airspeed (speed relative to air) is the normal 600 knots. Ground speed (speed relative to ground) is airspeed plus the tailwind speed of 240 knots average. So the plane is moving across the ground at 840 knots without a sonic boom.

@JohnShalamskas 5 месяцев назад

@@charliehustle9779 And just wait until you get into special relativity, the addition of the tailwind gets really weird since nothing physical can move faster than light.

@cosmo9208 5 месяцев назад

How do you get to 800 mph with those platforms??

@patrickbridgeman 5 месяцев назад

@@cosmo9208 you don't. what @dragbug100 means is that if you're walking on a moving platform at the airport it would appear to a motionless person that you're moving faster than if you were walking on regular non moving ground even though you're walking at the same pace you normally would. The moving platform gives you a speed boost because it is also moving in your direction of travel. Same thing with the wind and an airplane. The wind is like a moving walkway and the plane is like you moving at it's normal speed. If they’re moving the same direction the plane covers ground faster if they're moving in opposite directions it covers ground slower.

@fredfolson5355 5 месяцев назад

This is how warp drive works on Star Trek. Capt Picard's Enterprise is not moving faster than light, but they create a warp bubble where the space around the ship is moving at warp 8 (for example). The ship is barely moving at all, but it's the space around it that's being stretched and compressed creating the faster than light effect.

@RGisselle 4 месяца назад

Love the nerdiness. Huge Star Trek fan here :)

@d.b.1176 5 месяцев назад

Good luck on the returning flight.

@John-nc4bl 5 месяцев назад

They will avoid the jet stream on the westbound segment.

@k29king1 5 месяцев назад

I flew to Atlanta late last year and our Airplane achieved a 775mph ground speed, but our actual in air speed was 650mph.

@elephant35e 5 месяцев назад

650mph airspeed? That's weird. I can't think of any plane that cruises past the 500 - 600mph airspeed range, or can even reach an airspeed as fast as 650mph (except for the retired Concorde).

@deanruthlessrecords 5 месяцев назад

I unfortunately had the opposite about 10 years ago. Leaving Punta Cana Dominican Republic on a direct flight to St. Louis Missouri… The Captain notified us before take off that we will be hitting / going against “head wind” the entire trip home. It added almost 2 more hours to the already 4.5 hours flight. It was in a cramped USA 3000 Airbus and we unfortunately arrived at the airport minutes before check in closed due to a late transport from Southern Dominican in La Romana / Dominicus so our seats were in back cramped up against 2 A-HOLES who reclined their seats on top of my 6 foot 4 A$$. Worst flight of my entire life.

@PILOTKRIS777 5 месяцев назад

Sound like you need to pay for more expensive seats if your tall

@scratchpad7954 5 месяцев назад

_GROANS IN SYMPATHETIC AGONY_ I am about a foot shorter than you, and I felt your pain! I hope that plane had those digital screens to keep you busy. I flew on two flights within the last 18 months that didn't: a round trip on a Frontier Airbus A320neo to Phoenix, Arizona, and another round trip on a Delta Embraer ERJ-175 to Calgary, Alberta.

@Simulation101YT 5 месяцев назад

USA 3000 Airbus?

@triciac1019 5 месяцев назад

@@PILOTKRIS777I doubt they have better seats on an airbus.

@marvin7533 5 месяцев назад

I was on a Delta flight 2 years ago flying out of San Diego to Atlanta. The flight was 3 hrs and almost 30 min from coast to coast. Thanks to the jet stream.

@javyloya1637 5 месяцев назад

That’s crazy. I used to fly from LA to Minnesota and the flight was 5hrs. Daygo to ATL in 3 is insane…

@thomaswoods3421 5 месяцев назад

As a commercial pilot listening to them explain this has me thinking I can explain how brain surgery works 🤔

@Rick-qf5de 5 месяцев назад

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing... !!! 😮

@alphacharlieflies 5 месяцев назад

The perfect anology is like walking on a movator vs walking beside it

@illegalamishmen 5 месяцев назад

It’s like kayaking upstream vs kayaking downstream.

@40russia 5 месяцев назад

Good explanation. Although with some of these people it's like yelling in to the wind.

@weirdshibainu 5 месяцев назад

Imagine having a door plug blow out at over 800 MPH

@PR-qo5cn 5 месяцев назад

I flew to the main land from Hawaii last month and we ended up arriving 45 mins early. Usually it's 4 hours 54 mins it was a little over 4 hours this time

@incognitotorpedo42 5 месяцев назад

I flew from SF to Philly last week and we had a 162 mph tailwind. Airspeed was 520, groundspeed 682.

@Orlando_Rails 5 месяцев назад

It took 6:30hrs from lax to Hawaii and on the way back it was only 3:00 hrs

@FirstLastOne 5 месяцев назад

It's amazing that she didn't sue the airline for arriving one hour earlier and still charging her the same amount for flying for less time.

@kevinmaghran6933 5 месяцев назад

Imagine paying for first class then having that happen

@SYDAirlineEnthusiast 5 месяцев назад

Pilots are going to mad that those strong tailwinds gave them less pay while pilots flying the opposite direction are getting a lot more pay for flying the same distance.

@tome8373 5 месяцев назад

My grandfather used to have a little plane and one day we were flying into a headwind and making walking speed on the way home and he considered setting it down in a field.

@northerniltree 5 месяцев назад

Meanwhile, Lisbon to Philadelphia flights were clocked at 22 MPH.

@starventure 5 месяцев назад

No, the westbound flight would have gone north or south of the jet stream to avoid the headwinds.

@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne 5 месяцев назад

He was being 'ironic'.....@@starventure

@hernanhernandez3861 5 месяцев назад

The 1958 Boeing 707 had a cruise speed of 550 mph at 35k feet. The 2024 Boeing 787 has w cruise speed of 560 mph. In 66 years we picked up a whopping 10 mph. But if you take into account crowded seating arrangement (so it now takes much longer to board with carry-on luggage, etc.) and TSA security line delays we have gone substantially backwards. I flew a 707 in the mid 1970s to NY from LA and it was fast, spacious, comfortable, meal service, etc. And I could light up a cigarette if I wanted to (but I was 10....)! Today the experience is just a touch better than riding the subway. Now think about the automobile advancements from 1958 to 2024....

@malahammer 5 месяцев назад

Ah canna change the laws of physics Jim.

@BRUtahn 2 месяца назад

I guess the improvements in efficiency, safety, and capacity in that time don't count as improvements 🤷‍♀️

@bricefleckenstein9666 5 месяцев назад

I wonder how many times this happened to the Convair 990 - which was designed to travel 50-100 MPH faster than other airliners before or since.

@YortOK 5 месяцев назад

I was travelling on a Qantas 747-400 from Johannesburg to Sydney and the flight information told me we were travelling at 1250 km/hr.

@bkailua1224 5 месяцев назад

That is 13760.17 inches per second.

@davidking1219 5 месяцев назад

No current commercial airliner can do anywhere near 700 MPH including the 787. At altitude you would be supersonic. The speed of sound varies with temperature. The colder the air, the slower the speed of sound. Airplane max speeds are limited by the speed of sound. Usually below .9 Mach. The airplanes airspeed were likely under 600 MPH which means the winds were over 200 MPH. Is this safe? Technically the airplane does not care what the winds are doing as long as there is not severe or greater turbulence.

@foxtrotwolf6081 5 месяцев назад

It matters to the plane when you're trying to land unless you can turn the deck into the wind.

@PhilMoskowitz 5 месяцев назад

That's nothing considering that the planes were actually traveling more than 67,000 miles per hour through space.

@nuxvomica21 5 месяцев назад

And then you might figure also the rotational speed of the Milky Way and it's speed through intergalactic space as a whole..anyhow...I see what you did there 😊

@freddykagin 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing this information

@Mars-ev7qg 5 месяцев назад

My flight from Miami to Rio landed an hour early in May of 2023. It was very strange

@dennisbarker5986 5 месяцев назад

Its all fun and games tell your door blows off at 800 mph

@danieljohnstone6805 5 месяцев назад

😅😅❤

@shelbynamels7948 5 месяцев назад

was that also a 787 ??

@evanhilton279 5 месяцев назад

@@shelbynamels7948no, it was a 737 Max!

@MrBibi86 5 месяцев назад

I think you mean until and that would never happen because of the pressure in the cabin

@ftmt9568 5 месяцев назад

Alaska Airlines......HOLD MY BEER!

@nixl3518 5 месяцев назад

Perhaps the biggest issue this report missed, is the corollary consequence of Westward flights flying a lot slower over the Atlantic towards the American continent.

@mrvwbug4423 5 месяцев назад

Yes eastbound transatlantics have been running really fast the last few weeks due to a favorable jetstream. I just got back from the UK, on the outbound flight our aircraft was averaging a ground speed of 730mph over the atlantic, coming back it took an hour longer with a ground speed of less than 500mph in spots, and they took a much more northerly route to avoid the worst of the headwinds.

@neilfoster814 5 месяцев назад

The Speed of Sound, or Mach 1 at 38,000ft is 660mph (airspeed, not ground speed). The Speed of Sound at ground level is 760mph at 20 degrees Celsius and an air pressure of 1013Mb. A rubber balloon in air moving at 660mph in relation to the ground would be moving at a supersonic speed, but only have an airspeed of maybe 20mph. Only one commercial airliner has ever broken the speed of sound, and that's Concorde (Mach 2.1).

@brianmessemer2973 5 месяцев назад

I think general people who watch this and don't have a concept of the various kinds of speed used for aircraft are going to be confused here, even though the reporter explained it well in this interview. Ground speed is the speed of the aircraft relative to the ground. But that's not what aircraft use during flight. Aircraft use airspeed i.e. the speed of the aircraft relative to the air around it. But to add to the confusion there are several kinds of airspeed if you're a pilot: indicated airspeed, true airspeed which corrects for altitude and pressure. It's more complicated than the average person would guess.

@JohnShalamskas 5 месяцев назад

The navigator definitely is interested in ground velocity (speed and direction.)

@bkailua1224 5 месяцев назад

Jet airliners fly at a % of Mach in cruise about .78 to .86 and Mach is the speed of sound. Mach changes with altitude and temperature.

@THE-X-Force 5 месяцев назад

Extremely well explained.

@robr177 5 месяцев назад

So what he's saying is that this is not news.

@BrandonCrowl 5 месяцев назад

I bet the analogy is a conveyor belt. Just like you can walk at a set speed, the conveyor belt could also be moving at its own speed, too, helping pushing you along quicker.

@johntello8904 5 месяцев назад

I like that analogy, thanks!

@lexdunmon7345 5 месяцев назад

the airframe was not subjected to Mach levels of air friction related stress.

@johnstuartsmith 5 месяцев назад

If you ran up the aisle of 777 which was flying at a ground speed of 500mph you could briefly run 507 mph or, a mile every 8 seconds without working up a sweat or having your shoes explode or catch fire because your feet would only be moving at 7 mph relative to the airplane's carpeting. If you turned around and ran back, you'd be running backwards at 493 mph. Same principle.

@Skank_and_Gutterboy 5 месяцев назад

I had a flight like this coming back from Korea to LAX one time. According to the screen on the seat-back, we had a 196 MPH tail-wind and ground speed of 780 MPH. It's normally a 14 hour flight, we made it to LAX in just under 10. We had to circle for 20 minutes while they found a gate for us since we were so early.

@guardiaguardia3017 5 месяцев назад

I thought that if an airplane flight much faster for what his wings were design. It would brake the wings, even if it was with tail wind. Please explain.. thanks

@kobyschechter8163 5 месяцев назад

That’s supersonic speed right there.

@kraifs 5 месяцев назад

I've flown LA to NY in about 3 hours before. Dreamliner + winds were in my favor

@jamesbeemer7855 5 месяцев назад

She is surprised by a tailwind !

@pamelas9 5 месяцев назад

I feel like every time we talk about checked bag fees no one really talks about what the cargo space of airplanes is being used for, which is shipping packages. Airlines make major money on shipping, and those are reserved by volume and weight far in advance of the flight, passenger bags are a wildcard and can completely mess up an otherwise booked cargo space. There are very few completely dedicated cargo planes left. This was one of the contributors to the slow downs in supply chain during the pandemic, without passenger flights flying cargo spaces also weren't flying.

@b0ater2 5 месяцев назад

Sad part is the gate was probably not ready and they sat on the tarmac for over an hour :)

@fomfom9779 5 месяцев назад

Years ago, I was on a flight between LAX and MCI. It broke a record then, for its short duration. Again, thanks to the jet stream conditions.

@worldsgreatestdude1784 5 месяцев назад

If a flight lands at Austin Bergstrom Airport an hour early, you’re just going to sit on the tarmac for an hour. Getting off the early at that airport is pretty much strictly forbidden

@user-gz3cc8vh7g 5 месяцев назад

Lax to Chicago a few weeks ago landed over 35 minutes early

@californianews24 5 месяцев назад

Wow, that's incredibly fast for commercial flights! Achieving such high speeds is a testament to the advancements in aviation technology. It's amazing how far we've come in making air travel not just safer, but also more efficient. This kind of progress opens up so many possibilities for connecting people across the world even faster. Safe and speedy travels are something we can all appreciate! 🌐✈💨

@nick123nak6 5 месяцев назад

to be fair, the speed that commercial jets fly at hasn't increased since the 1960's

@bkailua1224 5 месяцев назад

@@nick123nak6 Actually we are flying slower than we did in the 1960's Back then most of the Jets would cruise at around .82 to .86 mach and today they fly around .78 to .82 When I was flying the DC-10 in the 80's we would cruise at .84 mach later flying the 767 in the 2000's we would be flight planned to fly at .78 to save fuel.

@rthelionheart 5 месяцев назад

The beauty of vector addition.

@ellasmommy9278 5 месяцев назад

I was on a flight about 25 years ago that landed 45 minutes early. We had a fast tailwind and it was a rough flight.

@Abcdefghijk920 5 месяцев назад

I worked a flight last night from IAH to PHL and we got in 45 minutes early! Everyone who would have missed their right connection made it with time to chill at the gate!

@RhymesWithCarbon 5 месяцев назад

It does happen. Flew from Denver to BWI and took off nearly 2 hours late - arrived only 1/2 hour late in real time. Insane.

@anthony19721 5 месяцев назад

This happens all the time in the middle of winter, when travelling west to east. Had many fast trip flying to Europe. You pay for it, when you fly back and have to face the head winds.

@jamesbeemer7855 5 месяцев назад

There are anomalies in the atmosphere , and as a pilot you learn about those anomalies in your training .

@memcrew1 5 месяцев назад

🧢

@jasonfreitag1100 5 месяцев назад

Same as a Jetson sidewalk at the airport. Your welcome.

@Kovaction 5 месяцев назад

It's a relative velocity thing. They explained it well. The planes are still flying at normal speed but the tail wind saves time without the plane experiencing more stress.

@r.a.6459 4 месяца назад

If winds of Neptune (900 mph) happens on Earth, travelling eastwards, you'll get from JFK to LHR in under 3 hours. Going from LHR to JFK however you'll get faster by going through Russia and Canada instead of fighting against the wind in the traditional route.

@xbshot 5 месяцев назад

We did 745 mph ground speed on AA102 HNL-DFW 2/19 landed over 1 hr early.

@javyloya1637 5 месяцев назад

That’s bonkers. Jet stream speed…

@Spyke-lz2hl 5 месяцев назад

How does southwest still not charge for bags? Amazing.

@stevenroshni1228 5 месяцев назад

but did they get off the plane faster or did they have to wait for the gate to open or have to circle around because of any late night landing noise restrictions?

@fumblerooskie 5 месяцев назад

Soon it will be cheaper to ship your bags via courier.

@megadavis5377 5 месяцев назад

Shoooot, we did this over West Virginia one afternoon. I wonder if they had a gate available when they landed…

@patrickbridgeman 5 месяцев назад

A better anecdote for the uninitiated is a plane in a tailwind is like walking up an escalator that is also going up. You get to the top faster than regular stairs that don't move. Walking up an escalator that's going down = headwind. In this example you = the plane and the escalator = moving pocket of air the plane flies in.

@derekschneider8922 5 месяцев назад

Sounds like velocity (speed total) was exceeded, or was near the design of “Speed capacity”. I mean can we go over 999 mph if the jet stream is?

@johnstuartsmith 5 месяцев назад

An aircraft's maximum safe speed refers to speed through the air before structural damage. This "maximum indicated airspeed" varies with altitude and temperature. If the jet stream were moving at 999mph, an airplane moving in the same direction still would have to maintain an airspeed a couple of hundred mph or knots above 999 mph just to maintain lift. A plane trying to fly in the opposite direction to that jet stream would have to be traveling through the air at more than 999 mph in order not to be traveling backwards.

@JohnShalamskas 5 месяцев назад

Air speed is 600 knots. It is the same whether you have a headwind or tailwind. Ground speed is where the tailwind adds velocity and headwind subtracts velocity.

@paulrom446 5 месяцев назад

I believe a Convair 880 did a very fast Coast to Coast run way back in the 1950's! Seems most Trans Continental traffic 🚦 in the US is metered or slowed down due to volume I think the Airlines call that Flow Control Schedule Blocks for flights include Ground time(Taxi to Live Runway) Actual Air time(Wheels up to Wheels down) is usually significantly less than the schedule block

@dirtyrice594 5 месяцев назад

My first ignorant thought was, " check all rivets!" but tailwind speed only effects ground speed lol. Good for them!

@craigcooknf 5 месяцев назад

Happened to me once. It was a pleasant surprise

@av8ionUSMC 5 месяцев назад

As an air traffic controller in the en route environment over Kansas/Missouri/Illinois, this is much more common than people think. Especially in the winter months when the jet stream is whipping at 175 kts or more. I routinely (again in the winter) see your faster aircraft B787, Citation X etc doing 660 knots give or take which is 760 MPH. For non-aviation/non-scientists enthusiasts, it doesn't mean they've exceeded the speed of sound. They're mach number is unchanged and they're no closer to reaching the speed of sound, they're just extremely fast with the tail wind!

@rp1268 5 месяцев назад

We had a 160mph tailwind from Jacksonville to NY on Sunday. The airplane data said the airspeed was 860mph. I didn’t know that was possible and now I see this video.

@Jambiswag 4 месяца назад

The plane trying to slow down and fight the wind would cause more potential for damage than going with the wind

@808drumz9 5 месяцев назад

It's like a car cruising on a highway when the entire highway is actually a treadmill going in the same direction.

@slickmastajay 5 месяцев назад

I mean i think the safety question is not just about engine operating speeds but that of the aircraft itself. Can it withstand traveling 100+mph over manufacturers stated top speed?

@nicoctane1669 5 месяцев назад

With recent plane issues not sure you want to go that fast too begin with...

@zz-.- 5 месяцев назад

Search RU-vid for passenger videos from the flights it’s pretty wild. Can’t believe this story doesn’t have any of those videos at all

@toussantchris 5 месяцев назад

We hit 700 coming from Seattle last night

@oreokitty3789 5 месяцев назад

Like surfing on a wave on the ocean. The plane has more pressure "pushing " against the craft. Making it move more efficiently then normal.

@luisbraz-ruivo 5 месяцев назад

Can you now provide the three slowest flights that were crossing the Atlantic at the same time in the opposite direction?

@ValerieG3 5 месяцев назад

The same thing happened to me a few months ago. When traveling for Thanksgiving, I was on a flight that reached a ground speed of 750 mph. We landed 27 minutes early, which was pretty remarkable since the flight itself was supposed to last 1 hour 20 minutes. I believe the pilot said we had a tailwind of 160 mph. Ironically, we arrived at the airport so early, our gate was still occupied by a different plane, and we had to wait a while until we could get a new gate assigned to us. By the time we were allowed off the plane, it had reached our original arrival time, so our arriving early was rather moot.

@r.a.6459 4 месяца назад

Addition of velocities as vectors. Here you have tail wind the speed of a Category '8' hurricane.

@CurvyTribune 5 месяцев назад

Imagine if the Concorde was out there, and broke those records in a instant

@Bruce.-Wayne 5 месяцев назад

That Concorde would make it to France from New York in 90min

@ilkerismail1690 5 месяцев назад

@@Bruce.-Wayneno, not even in the opposite direction. They would need almost 200 minutes, the altitudes at which is was permissible for it so go supersonic are always jetstream-free, very calm winds actually.

@robertpatrick3350 5 месяцев назад

I benefited from a jet stream boost on a BOS to LHR flight and whilst it made the flight pleasantly short ….. it was still glacially slow compared to a Concorde flight….

@stargazer5073 5 месяцев назад

It is like walking on a moving path, like they have in airports.

@GabGotti3 5 месяцев назад

I remember getting to Portugal in 4 hours and 20 minuetes before. It was insane. It usually took me 6-7 hours

@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne 5 месяцев назад

I have done Portugal in 3 hours....but in fairness I live in the UK....apparently people who live on the Spanish/Portugese border can do it in one short step.

@GabGotti3 5 месяцев назад

@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne I’m in America

@Limaxulu1 5 месяцев назад

We need the Concorde back

@danielmartin7838 5 месяцев назад

X-59 is attempting to make the return of a supersonic passenger aircraft a reality once again

@pinchez6067 5 месяцев назад

How fast is that as someone who uses the metric system

@gilchris 5 месяцев назад

How did west bound flights go that day?

@sisophous 5 месяцев назад

I'm not surprised. They are all 787s. A modern jetliner that is more aerodynamic than most commerical jets.

@planewire2153 5 месяцев назад

Ground speed= (True Airspeed+ Wind), For anyone still confused the imagine that you are walking up an escalator, add your speed plus the escalator speed to get your ground speed

@jimbell242 5 месяцев назад

Those winds had to have been extrememly unusual. It happens once in awhile, but to have so many hit these ground speeds in a short time is very rare indeed! I would like to hear from experts what they think causd those consistent high upper wind speeds.

@davidjames5727 5 месяцев назад

This is nothing new, I was on a Continental/United flight back in 2011-2012 from Hawaii to Houston, the flight map route I was watching took us over Mexico. The land speed indicator regularly said 780- 830. the flight usually is supposed to be around 7.5 hours, we made it in about 6.5. Arrived over 1 hour early.