Top 5: The Fastest Aircraft To Have Flown Between London & New York...The list has everything from the largest airliner to one of the smallest.
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Simple Flying ^
| 19 January 2024 | BY DR. OMAR MEMON
The nonstop route between New York (JFK) and London Heathrow (LHR) is one of the busiest air travel routes in the world. Dozens
of airlines from both sides of the pond offer daily flights (directly or through codeshare agreements) between the two airports. The coveted route between the two metropolises is operated using some of the best airliners in the world. Simple Flying compiled a list of five jets that have flown the route in the fastest duration. The flight durations in the list are based on typical flight times (not block times) as estimated by FlightAware and Flightradar24. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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90-seat Elysian airliner: 800-1,000-km range on batteries alone
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New Atlas ^
| January 11, 2024 | By Loz Blain
Elysian says the world is vastly underestimating the capabilities of battery-electric airlinersElysian Aircraft A Dutch startup says everyone's hugely underestimating the potential of battery-electric aircraft – that it's possible to build large battery-electric airliners covering distances most assume we'll need hydrogen for. Elysian
plans to prove it. The company doesn't believe it'll need some giant leap in batteries to do it, either; it says it can take 90 passengers some 800 km (497 miles) using a pack with 360 Wh/kg. Amprius, meanwhile, was shipping 450-Wh/kg cells back in 2022, and Chinese giant CATL launched a 500-Wh/kg "condensed" battery last year....
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You’ll Never Fly Again After Learning What Really Happened With Alaska Airliner’s Door Explosion
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Daily Caller News Foundation ^
| January 08, 2024 | Kay Smythe
A horrifying series of videos shared Friday showed the moment a window panel off an Alaska Airlines flight, and it turns out there were already concerns over the aircraft before takeoff. ... there was a significant concern over the aircraft’s safety well before the incident occurred, ... The aircraft was not being
used for flights to Hawaii because a warning light already indicated there were pressurization problems on three different trips before the one where the door panel blew off. Alaska Airlines had apparently restricted longer flights over water so it “could return very quickly to an airport” if the...
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Unknown Craft Near Airliner, Phoenix, Arizona Jan 6, 2023 UFO Sighting News
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ufosightingsdaily.com/ ^
| 2023-01-28
Eyewitness states: At 41,000 feet above possibly Nevada or Arizona, I looked out of the window of our Delta plane and saw something flying in tandem with us, or at least it appeared to be. The
brightness increased at one point. I took both pictures and a video of it. The city and state are not correct since we were flying and that information is required to file a report. I actually have no clue where we were except it had to be in the south west region given our flight path from LA to ATL.
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World’s fastest airliner ‘Overture’ to usher in new era of supersonic travel
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NY Post ^
| 08/14/2022 | Steve YablonskI
The world hasn’t seen commercial supersonic travel in nearly 20 years since the Concorde was retired in 2003, but all that is about to change with the development of a new, environmentally friendly airliner. Meet
Overture – the world’s fastest airliner that was developed by Denver-based Boom Supersonic. With 26 million hours of designing and testing, Overture will run on 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as it flies at Mach 1.7 over the ocean, shuttling between 68-80 passengers up to nearly 5,000 miles. The updated design features four engines that will keep weight and temperature balanced, which will also lower...
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Watch: Mysterious South China Sea Missile Launch Came Dangerously Close To Commercial Airliner
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Zubu Brothers ^
| 5-27-2022
An unknown foreign military in southeast Asia has reportedly test launched an SLBM, or submarine-launched ballistic missile, which appears to have endangered a nearby commercial aircraft full of people. Stunning
video taken from a Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 as it flew over the South China Sea just as the unidentified submarine launched the missile shows the airliner remarkably close. The Drive reports that it was likely a test of either the Chinese or South Korean military, but not even the precise date of the event has been confirmed at this point: Twitter user @jchovernut, a pilot for U.S.-based airline Allegiant...
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All 132 people on board crashed China airliner confirmed dead as second black box recovered
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cnn ^
| March 27, 2022 2:42am EDT | Jennifer Hauser, Philip Wang and Helen Regan
China's Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC) said they have identified 120 of the victims using DNA testing, including 114 passengers and six crew members. Monday's
crash of the Boeing 737-800 plane marks China's worst air disaster in more than a decade. Flight MU5735 was en route from the southwestern city of Kunming to Guangzhou with 123 passengers and nine crew members on board, when it lost contact over the city of Wuzhou, the CAAC said in a statement. The recovery of the flight data recorder, along with the cockpit voice recorder discovered on Wednesday and sent to Beijing for analysis, should...
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Shark-skin-inspired film immediately drops airliner fuel consumption
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https://newatlas.com ^
| February 23, 2022 | By Loz Blain
International airline Swiss will be covering all 12 of its Boeing 777s with a shark-skin-inspired film that can reduce drag and fuel consumption by more than 1 percentSwiss VIEW 2 IMAGES Zero-emissions airliners are still a long way off, but Lufthansa and BASF have developed a way to improve things right now.
AeroShark is an adhesive riblet film that immediately reduces fuel consumption, and therefore emissions, from any aircraft. Millions of years of evolution moved the ocean's most feared predators away from perfectly smooth skin. Instead, sharks have very slightly ribbed skin, which reduces drag enough to become an advantage....
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Belarus Scrambles Fighter to Force Airliner to Land, Arrests Opponent
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Newsmax ^
| May 23, 2021
Authorities in Belarus scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land on Sunday and then detained an opposition-minded journalist who was on board, drawing criticism from across Europe. In the dramatic incident, a Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jet escorted
Ryanair-operated passenger plane flying from Athens to Lithuania. The plane was suddenly diverted to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where authorities detained journalist Roman Protasevich. Data from the flightradar24.com website showed the plane was diverted just two minutes before it was due to cross into Lithuanian airspace. After...
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Airliner Pilot Says Jet Pack Guy Over Los Angeles Looked Just Like This Crazy Drone
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The Drive ^
| 20 Jan 2021 | JOSEPH TREVITHICK
Months after the first sighting of the jet pack guy over Southern California, we get new insights into the official investigation into the incidents. ohn Greenewald, a vigorous filer of Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests and author, who runs the website The Black Vault, received the documents through the FOIA process
and generously shared them with The War Zone. You can read the documents in their entirety over at The Black Vault ...the Chief Test Pilot at Jetpack Aviation, based in Van Nuys, California, who was skeptical of the reported sighting. "He confirmed that they have not flown for...
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Russia Says Syrian Air Defenses Nearly Hit Airliner Near Damascus
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RadioFreeEurope ^
| 2-7-20
An Airbus A320 airliner with 172 passengers on board has made an emergency landing in the Russian-controlled Khmeimim air base after Syrian air defenses nearly hit it, Russian news agencies have quoted a Defense Ministry spokesman as saying. The
Syrian air defenses were trying to repulse an Israeli attack near Damascus, Igor Konashenkov was quoted as saying on February 7. According to Konashenkov, after 2 a.m., four Israeli F-16 fighter jets fired at targets in the suburbs of Damascus without entering Syrian airspace. During the attack, a passenger plane with 172 passengers on board en route from Tehran to Damascus...
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Ukraine wants compensation from Iran for shot-down airliner
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Washington Examiner ^
| January 11, 2020 09:53 AM | Zachary Halaschak
Ukraine’s president is insisting that Iran issue a full apology and pay the country after it shot down a Ukrainian airliner and killed all 176 people on board. The
demands come a day after Tehran admitted that it "unintentionally" downed the airliner down with a surface-to-air missile. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded to the news on Saturday and said that his country must receive compensation. “Iran has pleaded guilty to downing the Ukrainian plane. But we insist on a full admission of guilt,” Zelensky said, according to RadioFreeEurope. “We expect from Iran assurances of their readiness for a full and...
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Joy Reid Parrots Iran: Blame Trump 'Adventurism' for Airliner Shootdown
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NewsBusters ^
| Mark Finkelstein
On her MSNBC show today, after praising Iran for having "stepped up" and admitting it shot down the airliner, Reid then explicitly adopted Iran's Trump-blaming position on the matter. Using
the identical term as the Iranian regime did, Reid put the onus for the shootdown on Trump's "adventurism." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.
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Iran's Fars News says Iran will announce the reason for the crash of the Ukrainian airliner tomorrow
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SkyNews twitter ^
| 1/10/2020 | ?
None. Just an announcement. I was going to post from Iran's Fars News, but it's all in Arabic.
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Iran Might Have Shot Down a Ukrainian Airliner, But Pete Buttigieg Blames America
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PJ Media ^
| 01/10/2020 | Jim Treacher
We're less than two weeks into 2020, but we already have a statement that definitively sums up the current state of the Democratic Party.There is now evidence that the Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Tehran on Tuesday was shot down by a Russian-built surface-to-air missile, such as those used by Iran's
anti-aircraft system. And guess whose fault that is, according to Mayor Pete? A candidate for president of the United States just blamed the United States for Iran shooting down a commercial airliner and killing dozens of civilians. Buttigieg could've just expressed his condolences. He could've said nothing at...
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CNN's Camerota Backs Democrat Rep in Blaming Trump for Airliner Shootdown
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NewsBusters ^
| Mark Finkelstein
This morning's New Day rolled dueling clips from two Members of Congress. In the first, Dem Rep. Jackie Speier squarely blamed President Trump, saying that the shootdown is "yet another example of collateral damage from the actions that have been taken by in a provocative way by the President of the United
States."[snip] Camerota left no doubt that she came down on Speier's blame-Trump side of the argument, saying that whereas both made interesting points: "I think it’s fair to say this would not have happened if there were not tensions between the US and Iran."Translation: Trump's fault! Get the...
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Trudeau is blaming Trump for Iran shooting down a passenger airliner
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twitter.com/ezralevant ^
| 5:13 PM · Jan 9, 2020 | Ezra Levant
Q: How much responsibility does US bear for this tragedy? Trudeau:
Evidence suggests this is the likely cause. Q: Do you feel US is partly responsible given they created the situation in which the missile was launched? T: That’s one of many q’s people will be thinking about.
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Video Shows Ukrainian Airliner Being Hit Over Iran
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nytimes.com ^
| Jan. 9, 2020 | Christiaan Triebert, Malachy Browne, Sarah Stein Kerr and Ainara Tiefenthäler
The New York Times has obtained video that shows the moment a Ukrainian airliner was hit minutes after takeoff from Tehran.
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Pentagon: Iran Shot Down a Commercial Airliner Carrying Hundreds of Civilians
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Townhall.com ^
| January 9, 2020 | Katie Pavlich
Pentagon officials believe the Iranian regime shot down Ukrainian Airlines Flight PS 752 with a Russian anti-aircraft missile Tuesday night. All
176 innocent civilians and the crew were killed. The victims were from Canada, the UK, Sweden, Germany, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Iran. There were no Americans onboard. "Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, a Boeing 737–800 en route from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airpot to Kyiv's Boryspil International Airport, stopped transmitting data Tuesday just minutes after takeoff and not long after Iran launched missiles at military bases housing U.S. and allied forces in neighboring Iraq. The aircraft is believed to have...
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It Looks Increasingly Likely That Iran Accidentally Shot Down That Ukrainian Airliner
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Red State ^
| 01/08/2020 | Streiff
Last night was full of drama. Iran
let off contemptible and laughable Potemkin attacks on two facilities that housed a small number of US personnel (the installation with the most US personnel, Balad airbase, was not hit) #BREAKING: Operation #Soleimani = Propaganda!#IRGC just wanted to raise morale of its personnel tonight! According to spokesman of #CENTCOM, #IRGC|ASF launched 10 (Fateh-313) missiles at Ain al-Asad without causing any harm to anyone & 5 (Qiam-1) at #Erbil among them 4 are lost! pic.twitter.com/MybSWsEPJm— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) January 8, 2020 Then, victory celebrations, led by regime thugs, spontaneously broke out #BREAKING: While #IRGC...
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