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Old 6th September 2004 | 14:18
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Vee One...Rotate

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As an earlier post said the atmosphere must rotate with the Earth or terrific wind shears would occur

Of course, this motion of the atmosphere with the Earth is like a drift velocity i.e. the mean motion of the atmosphere is with the Earth. The random movement of molecules and wind is superposed on top of this, giving local conditions.

Thus the absolute time between points is not dependent on the direction in which the aircraft flies in this respect.

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