Timeline for East-West and West-East flight times in relation to earth's rotation [duplicate]
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| Jan 21, 2016 at 18:23 | comment | added | casey | @SMSvonderTann I agree with Lnafziger that this isn't about time zones, but absolute duration and not understanding that the atmosphere rotates with the earth. | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 17:23 | comment | added | Lnafziger | @SMSvonderTann Well, since he asks if they will "take the same amount of time" and thinks that "the Earth's rotation should make the return trip longer", and he never mentions time zones, I don't really see it... Maybe he will come on and clarify for us though. | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 17:11 | comment | added | SMS von der Tann | @Lnafziger I think this has to do more with perception of local time at the origin and destination airports than with actual wind and stuff like that. | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 17:06 | comment | added | Lnafziger | @SMSvonderTann The way that I read the question, the OP believes that the atmosphere does not rotate with the earth, which would allow the earth to spin beneath you and either help or hinder your progress across the ground depending on your direction of travel... | |
| Jan 21, 2016 at 17:01 | history | edited | SMS von der Tann | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Cut question down to bare basics to clarify
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| Jan 21, 2016 at 15:15 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Jan 21, 2016 at 14:26 | comment | added | SMS von der Tann | I think I just got this question. He is talking about the "apparent" time that has passed in the airplane compared to the actual time because the earth's rotation causes the timezones to shift with or against the airplane, causing an apparent shorter or longer flight when comparing local times to the actual flight time. | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 20:14 | history | closed |
Federico mins fooot SMS von der Tann Simon |
Duplicate of Why do flight times differ between traveling East versus traveling West?, How Earth's rotation affect flight times? [duplicate] | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:57 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:19 | comment | added | mins | Engines are moving the aircraft related to the air around, the speed relative to the air will be the same. So the only parameter that can play a role is how the air is moving related to the ground. In your question you seem to state there is no wind. So the air is immobile related to the Earth. So the trips take the same time, the Earth rotation plays no role. If there was wind blowing in one direction, then it would shorten the flight time in that direction, whatever it is. This is why crossing the Atlantic using the jet streams takes less time from North America to Europe. | |
| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:02 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jan 20, 2016 at 18:02 | history | asked | Lloyd Strappini | CC BY-SA 3.0 |