What Is The Jet Stream & How Fast Does It Go?
How fast can airplanes travel? Julian explains how jet streams can get you traveling close to the speed of sound! Try the new Squarespace, ...
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This episode of DNews is brought to you by Squarespace. Surfers think catching a gnarly wave is radical? Thanks to some science we can ride air currents at almost the speed of sound with 200 ton surfboards in the sky. How’s that for radical? Hey silver surfers, Julian here for DNews. British airways flight 114 recently made a transatlantic crossing almost an hour quicker than usual, and was clocking ground speeds of 745 miles per hour, or nearly 1,200 kph. It’s been making news because that is a frankly ludicrous speed, considering the speed of sound at that altitude is somewhere around 1100 kph. But when you take into account the airspeed, that is the speed the airplane is traveling through the air around it, instead of the groundspeed it didn’t actually break the sound barrier, which is a good thing...
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This episode of DNews is brought to you by Squarespace. Surfers think catching a gnarly wave is radical? Thanks to some science we can ride air currents at almost the speed of sound with 200 ton surfboards in the sky. How’s that for radical? Hey silver surfers, Julian here for DNews. British airways flight 114 recently made a transatlantic crossing almost an hour quicker than usual, and was clocking ground speeds of 745 miles per hour, or nearly 1,200 kph. It’s been making news because that is a frankly ludicrous speed, considering the speed of sound at that altitude is somewhere around 1100 kph. But when you take into account the airspeed, that is the speed the airplane is traveling through the air around it, instead of the groundspeed it didn’t actually break the sound barrier, which is a good thing...
