Timeline for Do aircraft weigh less on an eastward flight than a westward flight, due to the Eötvös effect?
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| Oct 6, 2020 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAviation/status/1313403644059017217 | ||
| Oct 3, 2020 at 17:45 | history | edited | Pondlife | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 3, 2020 at 12:16 | history | edited | user52248 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2020 at 15:25 | comment | added | user52248 | @Zeus Yes Eotovos effect is just " vertical component" of Coriolis effect. | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 0:54 | comment | added | Zeus | Generally, as you see yourself, the effect is negligible for practical airplanes, esp. compared to other effects. But ask artillerists: they will show you the correction tables for shooting east and west (and in other directions: this 'Eötvös effect' is just a trivial case of the Coriolis effect). | |
| Oct 2, 2020 at 0:48 | comment | added | Zeus | This experiment may prove that the Earth is cylindrical :) To prove that it is a sphere, you need to repeat the experiment at different latitudes and measure the reduction (of the already small) effect. But luckily, you don't even need to fly. Just weigh yourself at the equator and at the pole and see the difference. | |
| Oct 1, 2020 at 21:05 | history | edited | user52248 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 30, 2020 at 19:51 | answer | added | MaximEck | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 18:03 | comment | added | Dean F. | Interesting concept. Though the original experiments were carried out with vehicles on the Earth’s surface. Even though these were marine vehicles, they were still greatly impacted by the Earth’s rotational speed. Would an aircraft in flight be impacted as much by this since it has no point of attachment to the Earth? The movement of the airmass in which it flies would have more of an impact. Thrust is acting upon the atmosphere, not the Earth, per se. Although, this would make perfect sense at takeoff, does the effect continue after the aircraft is airborne? | |
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| Sep 30, 2020 at 16:14 | answer | added | Jeffrey | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 30, 2020 at 15:59 | history | asked | user52248 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |