Editing Transatlantic flight (section)

==Records==
The fastest transatlantic flight was done by a [[Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird]] from New York to London in 1 hour 55 minutes in 1974.<ref name="Blackbird Records">[http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/records.php "Blackbird Records."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425042622/http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/records.php |date=25 April 2011 }} ''sr-71.org''. Retrieved: 18 October 2009.</ref> The fastest time for an airliner is 2 hours 53 minutes for [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|JFK]]–[[Heathrow Airport|London Heathrow]] by [[Concorde]] in 1996.<ref name="SST makes record flight">{{cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB04F816AA79462&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |agency=Reuters News Service |title=SST makes record flight |work=St Louis Post |access-date=30 June 2011 |date=9 February 1996 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001070114/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB04F816AA79462&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D |archive-date=1 October 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> The fastest JFK-LHR time for a subsonic airliner is 4 hours 56 minutes by a [[British Airways]] [[Boeing 747-400]] in February 2020.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-51433720|title=Storm Ciara helps plane beat transatlantic flight record|date=9 February 2020|url-status=live|website=bbc.co.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200209154310/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-51433720|archive-date=9 February 2020}}</ref> The distance JFK-LHR is {{convert|5540|km|mi}}.