Speed of Travel

[nuthead53]

Ok just something i was thinking about, do you go faster if you fly around the world the opposite way to which the earth spins? Or is the earth spinning a static speed, so no matter which way you travel you would, for example being going + or - 300mh but wouldnt this also mean that you could leave somewhere tuesday and arrive on thursday.

Odd

was jus something i was ponderin over last night

[Alex]

As you are turning with the world, you will do the same speed in either direction.

[Phil rr]

u are always flying relative to the speed of the ground beneath u.....the earth is orbiting the sun at X,000mph...so you could go even further into the theory and add that speed.

 

you can do funny things with the international dateline by going east or west - there is a physical line where the date changes

 

 

[Ian Cashman]

QUOTE (Phil rr @ May 13 2004, 19:30)

there is a physical line where the date changes

can you see it out of the plane window?

[Phil rr]

depends where the plane is

[Ginge]

If you fly at X mph round the world one way and at X mph round the world the other way you are still only travelling at X mph.

 

I think what you meant to ask was...If you took off from, lets say Gatwick, and flew westward round the world back to Gatwick, would it be quicker than travelling eastward?

 

I presume thats what you were really asking.

 

If so, then I think you'd be quicker going against the rotation of the planet than with it.

[BenRW]

its quicker to fly america to UK than UK to america cos of wind direction if thats helpful at all

[Phil rr]

QUOTE (benrostwood @ May 14 2004, 11:03)

its quicker to fly america to UK than UK to america cos of wind direction if thats helpful at all

i think wind would have FAR stronger effect than the planets rotation or anything else.

 

beans.

 

there, i said it.