Timeline for Why would a flight from North America to Asia sometimes fly over the Atlantic?
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 6:34 | comment | added | Charles Bretana | Get a globe and stand over it and look adown at these two routes drawn on the globe. Then you will understand. | |
| Jun 12, 2020 at 6:30 | answer | added | Charles Bretana | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 4:16 | history | edited | Greg Hewgill |
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| Aug 7, 2018 at 7:59 | comment | added | divine | @Yifan Nie take a look at Gnomonic projection of the world. you can understand the flight paths easily and its accurate. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 15:18 | comment | added | mastov | @Harper: Yes, they are indeed. But the very fact that we are talking about regions very close to the pole makes it clear that it is not the Atlantic. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 15:06 | comment | added | user33375 | @jwenting over, as in North of, is what I think OP was saying. Haha | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 11:34 | comment | added | Agent_L | Never use a flat map when thinking about a globe. The routes are straight, it's the map what's curved. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 10:51 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | Spheres are weird. | |
| Aug 3, 2018 at 2:15 | history | protected | kevin | ||
| Aug 2, 2018 at 22:47 | comment | added | DJohnM | To complement the posted correct answers, consider this page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes#Cities It contains a list of cities that are exactly (or almost exactly) opposite one another on the spherical earth (antipodal); for example, Xi'an, China and Santiago, Chile. You could leave Santiago, and fly in a straight line (great circle, not a rhumb line) in literally any starting direction and still wind up close to Xi'an. Of course, range and availability of alternate landing fields along the way would limit your choices... | |
| Aug 2, 2018 at 15:46 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Very weird definition of "clearly" you have there. The problem is the map. Mercator projections are exceptionally poor for anything within a few thousand miles of a pole. | |
| Aug 1, 2018 at 18:07 | vote | accept | Yifan Nie | ||
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| Aug 1, 2018 at 16:06 | answer | added | E.P. | timeline score: 108 | |
| Aug 1, 2018 at 15:54 | history | edited | FreeMan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2018 at 15:45 | comment | added | jamesqf | I don't think it's really going east or west much, either way. It flies north, then south :-) | |
| Aug 1, 2018 at 15:04 | comment | added | Michael Seifert | It's worth noting that only the green segments on the flight path are from actual radar tracking; the white segments are just estimated paths, and are (I believe) just great-circle routes that connect the known positions. So the actual routes for both flights might have been somewhat different. | |
| Aug 1, 2018 at 15:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/1024671579664465920 | ||
| Aug 1, 2018 at 14:21 | answer | added | Eugene Styer | timeline score: 91 | |
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| S Aug 1, 2018 at 11:48 | comment | added | Federico | Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. | |
| Aug 1, 2018 at 5:49 | comment | added | jwenting | Very weird definition of "the Atlantic" you have there. It clearly flies over the north pole, not the Atlantic. | |
| Aug 1, 2018 at 5:01 | answer | added | Greg Hewgill | timeline score: 86 | |
| Aug 1, 2018 at 4:31 | answer | added | kevin | timeline score: 37 | |
| Aug 1, 2018 at 4:22 | history | edited | kevin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2018 at 4:12 | history | asked | Yifan Nie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |