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Old 20th Feb 2019, 19:07
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by Juggler25
Had a Norwegian 789 a couple of weeks back asking for a direct as he was on track for beating the company record for JFK - LGW. He did it in 5 hours 11 minutes, breaking the record by 2 minutes. I've no idea what the actual record for this route is?
That time presumably is the record, given that the 15 January 2018 time of 5 hours 13 minutes was widely reported at the time as a record subsonic time.
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