Reading post 159457 in main thread: Boeing record points at strategy
November 10th, 2005  
Whispering Death
 
 
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Originally Posted by LeEnfield 2
There is a bit of a trick with this, and that is to fly in the jet stream with the wind behind you. If it was the other way well they might not have made it.
Not a huge deal though, I mean, wouldn't it have been a shorter as in miles/kilometers difference to go the other way around the world anyway? I mean, if you're already taking the long way across the world...
 
 
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