The jet stream has been pushing airliners across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at high speed, with some west-to-east ...

At least two flights briefly traveled faster than the speed of sound as the jet stream sped up, but there would not have been ...

The fastest recorded ground speed reached by a transatlantic flight was 835mph, which was hit by a commercial aircraft going ...

An unusually strong jet stream over the Atlantic bringing Storm Eowyn to the UK and Ireland is so powerful it pushed a flight ...

The planes didn’t break the sound barrier because it was the air moving them so quickly, not their engines. The report compared it to someone walking on a moving walkway at an airport – the person is ...

When Virgin Atlantic Flight 10 took off from New York’s JFK International Airport this week, it was running 1 hour 13 minutes ...

When meteorologists in North America mention “the jet stream,” they are usually referring ... East Coast of the U.S., and flows across the Atlantic, all the way to the Norwegian Sea.

The UK is bracing itself for an Atlantic jet stream of up to 100mph which could see strong winds batter large parts of the country. Jet streams are a narrow band of fast-flowing air in the Earth's ...

At least two Ryanair flights ended up back where they started, while another was diverted 300 miles away as Storm Éowyn hit ...

An unusually strong jet stream pushed the British Airways flight to 814 miles per hour nearly breaking the subsonic speed ...

But within 23 minutes of takeoff, it was careening over the Atlantic at 803 mph — and still got to London’s Heathrow Airport on time. The reason? Fierce jet stream winds supercharging its speed.