<story><title>Storm Ciara helps plane beat transatlantic flight record</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-51433720</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>&amp;gt;The fastest transatlantic crossing belongs to BA Concorde, which flew from New York to London in two hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds in 1996 - hitting a top speed of 1,350 mph.&lt;p&gt;That was the fastest commercial flight. The fastest transatlantic crossing by an aircraft was the SR-71 in 1974:&lt;p&gt;1 hour 55 minutes
Average speed over 1800 mph&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tacairnet.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;the-sr-71s-record-breaking-transatlantic-crossing&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tacairnet.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;the-sr-71s-record-breaking-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>themodelplumber</author><text>&amp;gt; 1 hour 55 minutes Average speed over 1800 mph&lt;p&gt;It felt weird that my first reaction was to wonder what took so long. For some reason I was thinking that surely the Blackbird could make the crossing about 60 minutes faster than listed.&lt;p&gt;Looking at a map, I saw that the air line distance from Fortaleza to Dakar is just over 1,900 miles though. So I&amp;#x27;m thinking &amp;quot;transatlantic&amp;quot; must mean more than my own basic definition. (Plus I don&amp;#x27;t know if these locations would have enough runway for the SR-71, or if the reason we haven&amp;#x27;t heard of faster is because US taxpayers aren&amp;#x27;t footing the gas bill to arrange a shorter route)</text></comment>
<story><title>Storm Ciara helps plane beat transatlantic flight record</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-51433720</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>RcouF1uZ4gsC</author><text>&amp;gt;The fastest transatlantic crossing belongs to BA Concorde, which flew from New York to London in two hours 52 minutes and 59 seconds in 1996 - hitting a top speed of 1,350 mph.&lt;p&gt;That was the fastest commercial flight. The fastest transatlantic crossing by an aircraft was the SR-71 in 1974:&lt;p&gt;1 hour 55 minutes
Average speed over 1800 mph&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tacairnet.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;the-sr-71s-record-breaking-transatlantic-crossing&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tacairnet.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;02&amp;#x2F;the-sr-71s-record-breaking-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aeleos</author><text>It looks like this is not the fastest commercial flight but the fastest subsonic flight. The Blackbird and Concord records you are talking about are a different category.</text></comment>