How come when a plane flys halfway around the world, it goes way up into the arctic and back then in a arc?
Nov-30-2009 Posted under Alaska Flights
Wouldnt it be faster and a shorter distance if it went in a straight line? When I was on a flight from New York to Beijing, the plane went way up into northern Canada through the northern tip of Alaska and through Russia and went back down south to Beijing. Why dont the planes just fly straight west in a shorter straight line instead of making a huge detour?
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