well it all started the day before when Tim Orchard Rick eids and I uh operated the the the flight to New York we sort of um andard and decided that perhaps on the way back we might attempt uh a record time everything looked as though it was lining up nicely it all looked as though this this was a real possibility we had a pretty fast flight time planned so we thought well this is probably worth a go I remember Tim started the Stockwatch as soon as we got Airborne just to make make sure that we knew what the time was we got great help from Air Traffic Control we were just essentially flying at Mac 2 I didn't do anything
different there other than straightening the route we had some pretty good Tailwinds helping us along we decelerated as late as we possibly could we did all the calculations and I elected to decelerate at the last moment which would have helped us quite a bit I decided to leave The Descent as late as I possibly could from there as well because we were making great time we were doing really well and we descended as rapidly as we could we bided by all the British Airways rules and regulations as far as speed control was concerned I didn't want to do anything too racy this was a commercial flight we touched down 2 hours 52 minutes 59 seconds after we got airborne
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