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Re: Geography (was: We'll take in your poor....)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:58:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
> Yeah, but LA to Boston is only 5 hours...he was flying east.
Last I checked, it's faster to fly west than east, since you'd be flying into
the planetary rotation instead of overtaking it.
Also, you can't judge the size of a country very accurately by board-to-debark
times, since many airlines pad those times based on how long they know you're
going to be sitting on the tarmac waiting for your shot down the runway. If you
check otherwise identical flights, the mid-day flights will always run longer
(sometimes by hours) than the red-eyes, and that's because the airport is
intentionally overbooked for more expensive "prime hour" flights (when they tell
you that they'll "make it up in the air", they're just quoting the official
corporate lie). Also, availability, direction, and speed of jet streams will
greatly affect your flight time.
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 | | Re: Geography (was: We'll take in your poor....)
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| (...) Does this apply to driving, as well? If so, I may have found a new excuse for being late to work. But a more serious question: How big a factor *is* planetary rotation vis a vis commercial jet travel? I would have thought that, because flights (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Geography (was: We'll take in your poor....)
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| (...) I must admit I have never checked, so I can't even say "last I checked", but since Long Jumpers don't slaver at setting world records on a west facing runway let me be the first official doubter. Going east helps getting into orbit since that (...) (20 years ago, 14-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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