The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway.

The fastest recorded ground speed reached by a transatlantic flight was 835mph, which was hit by a commercial aircraft going from New York to Lisbon last February. Although such a speed is officially ...

An unusually strong jet stream over the Atlantic bringing Storm Eowyn to the UK and Ireland is so powerful it pushed a flight travelling to London to near record speeds, data suggests. According to ...

Planes crossing the Atlantic Ocean can reach speeds of 840 mph as they’re carried by the jet stream. NurPhoto via Getty Images The plane was in the air less than 30 minutes before reaching ...

The planes were traveling at their usual cruising speeds — typically about 600 mph — but were propelled by the North Atlantic jet stream flowing much faster than usual. So, while the planes ...

While jet streams are air patterns, the Gulf Stream is an ocean pattern that also has an impact on weather.

The UK is bracing itself for an Atlantic jet stream of up to 100mph which could see strong winds batter large parts of the ...

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

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Significant ice and snow will fall across northern states on Wednesday, Thursday and over the weekend as a busy weather ...

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

The colder it gets, the faster they fly. Commercial flights bound for Europe have been taking off late from the States but arriving on time or early, thanks to a more powerful jet stream ...