A new sailing record was set recently, which didn't _quite_ beat 40 days - it took them 40 days and almost 11 hours.
If you've ever seen a SailGP boat flying up out of the water on their hydrofoils and doing 100kmh - imagine a 32m long 26m wide ocean going trimaran doing the same thing in a non stop circumnavigation of the globe. I think they _averaged_ 27knots or 50kmh!
And when the world was still flooded with money and the music was awesome (so 2004), Jeremy Clarkson did a series about inventions, one of them being the jet plane, and he flew commercial around the world in 120 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8D_UzMhjH8
> Finally, can it be flown legally? Most of the trajectory can pass over the oceans, but skipping land completely would take too much of a detour, and likely be incompatible with prevailing winds. Although the political climate may be hostile, it is still legal to fly civil craft over other countries.
A new sailing record was set recently, which didn't _quite_ beat 40 days - it took them 40 days and almost 11 hours.
If you've ever seen a SailGP boat flying up out of the water on their hydrofoils and doing 100kmh - imagine a 32m long 26m wide ocean going trimaran doing the same thing in a non stop circumnavigation of the globe. I think they _averaged_ 27knots or 50kmh!
https://youtu.be/ffqhFyaCUFA
If you _haven't_ seen the SailGP boats and are curious, here's somewhere to start: https://youtu.be/BQWOoP-Iwn8