Blake
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A flight from New York 🇺🇸 to London 🇬🇧 covers 3,459 miles (5,566km) of distance. Based on the official Earth globe measurements (radius = 6,371km/3,959mi) given to us by NASA, the amount of Earth curvature drop that should take place over the course of that USA ---> UK trip is 1,298 miles (2,088km). An SR-71 Blackbird has been recorded making this exact trip in ~2 hours. So, over the course of that flight, the plane would have to drop downward by 650 miles every hour. That's 10 miles per minute. Or approximately 1 mile (1.6km) every 6 seconds. Ask any high-speed jet pilot if they experience this 800 feet PER SECOND downward drop while they're flying, or have to dip the nose of their plane down to follow this "curve" as they fly. Of course they will laugh at you. This is ridiculous. Pilots do not have to account for these insane giant ball measurements, because they do not exist.





















