The wind is blowing this Sunday, February 9.
As announced for several days, Belgium, France, Germany and the United Kingdom are swept by the Ciara storm. If the weather phenomenon causes a lot of damage on its way, it was also the basis of a new record this Saturday, February 8. In fact, a flight from New York to London was completed in 4 hours and 56 minutes, as revealed by the Air plus news site.
It is a Boeing 747-400 of the British Airways company which, pushed by the winds, traversed the usual air route in record time, knowing that such a journey normally takes approximately six hours and 15 minutes.
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This is not surprising, however. Indeed, storm Ciara helped the planes to move forward, generating large air currents aloft over the Atlantic Ocean. These winds are a great help for the aircraft since they can reach, roughly horizontal, some 360 kilometers per hour.
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Two other planes, airbuses, flew the same route in a much shorter time than that usually recorded.
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