The reason? Fierce jet stream winds supercharging its speed. The jet stream is like a river of west-to-east winds in the upper atmosphere. Airplanes use it like a highway. If flights are heading ...
It isn't the return of Concorde — instead, regular wide-body jets were flying through an accelerated jet stream. According to data from Flightradar24, Qatar Airways Flight 704 reached a top ...
The supersonic jet-stream winds circling WASP-127b at its equator are the fastest of their kind on any known planet. "There is an extremely fast circumplanetary jet wind found on the planet.