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.
(Excerpt) Read more at virginradio.co.uk ...
Everybody knows that if you spend the first half of your trip climbing to the north pole, the second half of the trip is all down hill. I guess the tiktokers aren’t familiar with the, “great sliding board,” principle of commercial aviation.
Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86-00513R001343720008-3
Search "flat" and "firmament"
That's right...the CIA...https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp86-00513r001343720008-3.
I could go on. 81 Government & Affiliate Documents that admit Flat Earth
I made very minor contributions to this project in my prior life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Air_Transportation_System
The summer I was 15 I came across a reference to a "great circle route" and "rhumb lines" in a sea story, so I asked my father, a former navigator as a naval and merchant marine officer, what they were. In response, he handed over a massive book, Bodwitch's American Practical Navigator and challenged me to figure it out. After a weekend of close study, I knew what a great circle route and rhumb lines were and had picked up the rudiments of spherical geometry and celestial navigation.
In the process, I also became able to imagine and manipulate a globe and other shapes in my mind, converting simple diagrams from Bodwitch into animations. That has proven useful over the years in not just building and repairing things but also in larger abstractions like understanding Einstein's theory of relativity. I am convinced that any such abilities though were spurred by my father's approach to my original question when I was a teen.
Similarly, your husband probably first dreamed of flying and started reading and thinking about it when he was a boy. For him, flying lessons were a way to realize what he had long imagined, including how to imagine motion in three dimensions.
I should of added - but they know it only effects a incredibly small number of shots.
So we agree to a certain extent. Blaming the spotter? Only if the DOPE is incorrect.
Coriolis Effect? I can tell already that that would be a long discussion with you. I can say that I have seen it effect shots depending on the angle the shot is taken in relation to the rotation of the Earth.
Italians did it
People are getting seriously stupid.
What happens with the tilt of the axis?
Why are the heat bands NOT tilted as well to match the tilt?
Just great. One of those Round Earth whackos.
Exactly.
I think they call them Aircraft carriers!!!!
“Why are the heat bands NOT tilted as well to match the tilt?”
Maybe because the earth is spinning around every 24 earth hours?
What happened to flying by Iceland before flying over Russia as depicted in the article photo?
Nobody could be that stupid.
Oh, wait ...
Last summer I flew from JFK to Seoul non-stop. The flight display showed at one point that we were over Alaska.
Earth is not flat
Return flights from Asia use catch the jet stream. Typically, return flight is about an hour shorter.
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