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The gliding flight consisted of four legs along the eastern side of the Andes mountain range. The flight time of 15h 8m giving an average speed of almost exactly 200 km/h. [61] [62] March 21, 1999: 40,814 km: Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones: Breitling Orbiter: Distance record for a balloon: January 31, 2015: 10,711 km: Troy Bradley and Leonid ...
The September 1947 ABC Guide shows 27 passenger flights a week west across the North Atlantic to the US and Canada on BOAC and other European airlines and 151 flights every two weeks on Pan Am, AOA, TWA, and TCA, 15 flights a week to the Caribbean and South America, plus three a month on Iberia and a Latécoère 631 six-engine flying boat every ...
The flight goes between two islands in Orkney, Scotland: Westray and Papa Westray. At 2.7 kilometres (1.7 mi), it is the shortest scheduled airline flight in the world as of December, 2016. The Loganair Westray to Papa Westray route is the shortest scheduled passenger flight in the world. Flights on the route are scheduled for one and a half ...
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As of November 9, 2020, Singapore Airlines Flights 23 and 24 is the world's longest active commercial flight between Singapore and New York–JFK, covering 15,349 km (9,537 mi; 8,288 nmi) in around 18 hours and 40 minutes, operated by an Airbus A350-900ULR. [40]
Concorde's crossing was not the fastest ever flight across the Atlantic. That record is still held by a Lockheed SR-71A which crossed the Atlantic in 1 hour 54 minutes in 1974, although it was not carrying commercial passengers. [23] Tom Gentry's Gentry Eagle at Mamaroneck, New York, prior to a record attempt
North Atlantic Tracks for the westbound crossing of February 24, 2017, with the new reduced lateral separation minima (RLAT) Tracks shown in blue. The North Atlantic Tracks, officially titled the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS), are a structured set of transatlantic flight routes that stretch from eastern North America to western Europe across the Atlantic Ocean, within the ...
The most common standard flight length measurement is by great-circle distance, a formula that calculates the shortest distance across the curvature of the earth for two airports' ARPs. [5] It is the only measurement that is constant on a given city-pair route and unaffected by operational variances. [6]