Timeline for Why do flight times differ between traveling East versus traveling West?
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| May 20, 2016 at 3:06 | comment | added | reirab | While this answer is correct about the direction prevailing winds blow, it's completely off about the reason. The actual reasons are quite a bit more complicated than this and have to do primarily with global heating patterns. Long story short, there's a persistent cyclone at each pole (which is stronger in that pole's respective winter season.) The jet streams we usually refer to are the polar jet streams which occur between the mid-latitudes and the polar vortices. There's a weaker jet stream between the tropics and each mid-latitude zone, but they're too high to be useful for most flights. | |
| May 28, 2015 at 22:31 | comment | added | Federico |
@fooot he's using it in the sense of "push forward", see the propelled a few words later.
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| May 28, 2015 at 22:25 | comment | added | fooot | @Federico well a plane could be pushed in any direction. | |
| May 28, 2015 at 22:06 | comment | added | Federico |
Unlike planes being pushed by wind that's valid only if it is a tailwind
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| May 28, 2015 at 21:57 | history | edited | fooot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarify poles vs. axis
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| May 28, 2015 at 21:56 | comment | added | fooot | I'm finding this a bit confusing to follow... are you saying that rotation affects flight time apart from the wind? | |
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| May 28, 2015 at 21:40 | history | answered | Bassball Batman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |