Posted on 11/12/2022 12:51:46 AM PST by Saije
How's this for a detour? Over on TikTok people are losing their minds as to why the world's longest flight travels in an over-exaggerated curve and not in a straight line from New York City to Singapore.
Travelling at a whopping distance of 9,537 miles, people have had their brains twisted over its questionable logic.
TikTok user Travel With DJ documented the curved details of the world's longest non-stop commercial flight. The Singapore Airlines flight takes off from John F. Kennedy (JFK) airport and lands in Singapore Chani Airport.
Travelling from Singapore back to New York is thought to take 18 hours and 50 minutes, according to Upgraded Points.
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I mean that HAD to be a joke
It’s like no one ever talked about mapping in Geography class in the 7th grade, and dealing with putting elements of a mostly-spherical 3D world onto a flat 2D map. Mercator Projection, anyone?
K-12 government school education stinks.
Flying in a straight line on a flat map would be flying in a curved line on a round map.
Isn't that a great route? When you look down there is nothing but darkness for what looks like thousands of miles. Maybe interrupted by a tiny speck of light here and there (pipeline pumping stations?).
Seems incredible.
There are multiple reasons such as those posted above.
But also safety reasons.
ETOPS (Extended Operations) requires 2-engine passenger aircraft to be within 60 minutes of an airport. 4-engine passenger aircraft must be within 180 minutes of an airport.
Lol. :)
Socialism is the longest distance between two points.
Evidently, they never had one to begin with.
1931 LOL
Me? I’m baffled why the world’s longest election takes place in Arizona.
Too bad an airplane can’t poke its way slightly into space and just let the world spin beneath it until it is over its destination.;-)
And they vote.
Probably for democrats.
Likewise, all of Russia rotated 90 degrees would fit inside continent of Africa.
Jet Stream. Sometimes they fly this route east-west and sometimes west-east depending on the jet stream and storms along the way.
They are called great circle routes. The earth is a sphere, folks...not flat.
Wrong. The formula is 8" per mile squared.
Even Alexa knows that...What is the curvature of the earth per mile?
The Earth has a radius of approximately 3965 miles. Using the Pythagorean theorem, that calculates to an average curvature of 7.98 inches per mile or approximately 8 inches per mile (squared).
At three miles the drop is about 6 feet. You aren't going to get that with your formula.
Every serious sniper knows that! ;-)
What is the difference between a mile and a mile squared?
They are both one mile long.
All of the above — plus perhaps avoding China air space?
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