Does Earth’s Spin Change Airplane Speed?

[dillpickle]

Mark is like the internet's cool nerdy uncle

[landrewmackinnon]

Exactly why I leave orbit and wait for my destination to rotate to me, then I land.

[CoolYoutubeName-uz]

Just if you're wondering, this is also why a bug in a car can still fly in the car even if it's going 60mph.

[Fraserblaser]

The Wind is going to have something to say when it sees this 😂😂😂

[michaelhaueter]

Meteorologist here!
Actually planes can fly faster because of the rotation of the planet, however it is a bit more indirect. Because of the uneven heating of the earth, and the fact that the earth is spinning, there are upper level winds (that can be both westerly or easterly) that cause planes to fly faster or slower. These winds would not exist in the absence of a spinning earth, so indirectly, yes they can make it go faster.

[franciscovega]

this reminds me of a video my middle school teacher would show before Bill Nye because she didn't wanna teach that week 😭

[B-L-U-B]

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[micahmash-up]

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[SN]

Next week's lesson is "Prevailing winds: why it actually is faster to travel in one direction than the other."

[yuvalne]

The thing is, planes dp travel faster in one direction than in the other, but that's due to the direction of high winds, which are affected by the coriolis effect, which only then comes back to the rotation of the earth.

[jeanknapp]

Interesting how it doesn't affect the airplane's speed because its orbital doesn't matter, but that's the exact logic behind the direction you should launch orbital rockets.

[yourfavoritemovies]

Wow! I hadn’t had that understanding of this! Thanks for the knowledge

[davidgann]

This reminds me of a fly trapped in your car. It can't fly 55mph, but it can fly around in your car going 55mph.

[gijones]

“It doesn’t matter which way you travel, you’ll still fly the same speed”
*Jet Stream enters the chat.

[lukedseals]

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[MicheRR]

I know a few that the air does not push you after the Earth. The fact is that while you are on earth, you are given the same speed as the planet Earth. Simply put, you and her are one. And when you take off in an airplane, your speed will be the same as on the surface of the Earth (the planet kind of "pushed" or "accelerated" you before takeoff), but the speed of the engine will also be added, so you begin to move relative to the surface of the planet.

[bobthegoat]

The jet stream typically moves from west to east because of the earth's rotation (Coriolis effect). So in a very round about way, you could say the earth's rotation influences the speed of jets as they often try to take advantage of the jet stream.

[KieranLeCam]

Also... to clarify, you are moving with the rotation of the Earth on take-off. So you can treat Earth like a static map *compared to you* . Since you already move in the direction of Earth's spin, whatever you do after will already take into account that initial spin speed. It's all about frames of reference. Who is moving *compared to* what.

[LAGGER_GAMING]

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