Long plane flights
Long plane flights
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- ghandolf0
"... I was a bit surprised that the flight pattern is that direction, because it seems like west would be a shorter distance..."
mg33
(May 23 06, 08:41)Depends on the jet stream. Flying East uses the jet stream, flying West, fights it.
When I went to Singapore, we went straight north, from San Francisco, over Alaska, down the East Rim, into Asia.
On the way home, we webt directly East from Japan, over the Ocean.
It was WAY faster, with a jet stream of 475 MPH behind us. If we went straight into that on the way West, we'd of run out of fuel half way there.