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People are baffled why world's longest flight doesn't travel in a straight line
Virgin Radio UK ^ | 11-11-2022 | Virgin Radio

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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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: airplane; embarrassmenttofr; flatearth; flatearthnitwits; flight; flunkedgeography; flunkedgeology; generationofmorons; greatcircle; newyorkcity; postelectionagitprop; singapore; theyshouldstayhome; tiktok; travel; travelwithdj
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To: Saije

As some have alluded to it is because of the concept of the great circle. In short, the great circle can be imagined by cutting the globe in half with the the center of the globe, the origin and destination on the plain created by cutting the globe in half. As on a flat plain the shortest distance between two points is a straight line; the shortest distance between two point on a sphere is on a flat plain.


41 posted on 11/12/2022 3:26:46 AM PST by jimfr
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To: Lazamataz

Good one.


42 posted on 11/12/2022 3:27:02 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: Krosan

That’s either really funny or astoundingly pathetically stupid by that author.

Great post either way.


43 posted on 11/12/2022 3:28:01 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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To: Saije; Fred Nerks

Its sherical geometry.

IOn fact there are no straight lines that can be drawn on the earths sevice. Contraru to the popular believe that the shortest distance between two points is a staright line is a myth. Buckminster Fuller pointed this out repeatedly.

The longer the line the more curved it has to be.

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This is not a straight line, it is curved, but it has to be much longer for you to perceive the curvature.


44 posted on 11/12/2022 3:29:02 AM PST by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Candor7

“Spherical geometry”


45 posted on 11/12/2022 3:30:00 AM PST by Candor7 (ObamaFascism:https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: sit-rep

No planes go to NZ and Aussie every day right across the Pacific Oceans 12-13 hours San Fran or LA to Auckland non-stop

No land in sight ...


46 posted on 11/12/2022 3:30:01 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Krosan

What about in 1941 ???


47 posted on 11/12/2022 3:32:27 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Saije

Maybe they can use an Azimuthal Equidistant Map like the UN flag and the Gleason map to make it make sense.

Cognitive dissonance. Santa Claus (a ball globe) IS real!

48 posted on 11/12/2022 3:32:40 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Lazamataz

And the person that runs the election wants to be Governor!

With regards to maps, it is interesting how many varieties of types of maps there are that TRY to portray the earth properly but can’t and they all have their pros and cons.

Even the globe I had as a kid was quickly “wrong” whenever some country in Africa would change their name.


49 posted on 11/12/2022 3:34:49 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: mad_as_he$$
Every serious sniper knows that! ;-)

Every serious sniper knows the curve doesn't exist and a missed shot is on the shooter/spotter, not because of the curve/spin of the Earth.

50 posted on 11/12/2022 3:35:18 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Rockingham

Precisely


51 posted on 11/12/2022 3:35:42 AM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Saije

They are sneaking behind Greenland to avoid Greenland air defense.


52 posted on 11/12/2022 3:37:58 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: philman_36
Wrong. The formula is 8" per mile squared.

Wrong again. That is a parabolic function. The earth is a sphere, not a parabola. The formula for circle is R2=X2+Y2.

R (earth's radius) is about 4,000 miles, so using miles, CURVATURE=4,000 - (square root of (16,000,000 - distance2)).

It just happens to be that 8" per mile squared is a good approximation using small distances.
53 posted on 11/12/2022 3:38:03 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: deks

54 posted on 11/12/2022 3:38:34 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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I quick search.

“Planes travel along the shortest route in 3-dimensional space. This route is called a geodesic or great circle. While map projections distort these routes confusing passengers, the great circle path is the shortest path between two far locations. This is why pilots fly polar routes saving time and distance.


55 posted on 11/12/2022 3:38:58 AM PST by DAC21
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To: Krosan

Please tell me this is someone’s idea of a joke. It does seem like classic revisionist (fake) history.


56 posted on 11/12/2022 3:39:03 AM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

See 54 for the math geekery.


57 posted on 11/12/2022 3:39:35 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: philman_36

Driving across Montana with my daughter we were trying to guess how far we could see. We took a guess at the mountains ahead and we were pretty close at 15 miles away (within 1 mile).

I thought the horizon on the ocean was 11 miles away - so thanks for the correction that it is only 3 miles away. I’ll have to tell her that. She thought it would have been much farther than 11 miles (I told her that I wasn’t sure!), so I suppose she will be sorely disappointed that it is only 3!


58 posted on 11/12/2022 3:40:13 AM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: Rockingham

Funny how we can’t all translate these things. My hubby took flying lessons and laughed at my linear mind. To think of things like the size of the earth and flight paths in theory, is hard for me. I will stick to statistics.


59 posted on 11/12/2022 3:40:44 AM PST by momincombatboots (QEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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To: Travis McGee

Circles can be calculated using either Cartesian coordinates or trigonometry.


60 posted on 11/12/2022 3:43:25 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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