Only a few of the greatest purchasers of the Boeing 747 were US airlines, and some still have them in service.
The fastest subsonic transatlantic commercial flight recorded by Guinness World Records took place in 2020, when a British Airways Boeing 747 flew from New York to London in 4 hours and 56 minutes.
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The intriguing phenomenon helping planes slingshot across the Atlantic at 800 mphThe jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway.
A Virgin Atlantic aircraft, too, once managed to achieve high subsonic speed in 2019 on a flight from Los Angeles to London.
A British Airways plane was struck by lightning during a storm in Sao Paulo on January 24, delaying its takeoff. Passenger Bernhard Warr captured video of the lightning strike while waiting to board.
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