Hi
galaxy flyer,
A nice good fun thread, thanks for starting it.
I figured the sun's ground speed as 900 Kt (Equatorial speed) X Cosine Latitude, i.e.
900 X Cos 64°44' = 384 Kt.
Sorry that you also had a short Christmas Day, it seems that you were flying East, we were going West, passed 00:00 Local time on 25th December a few hours after Takeoff. As a Westerly flight it should have lengthened Christmas day, but 5Hr:17min later crossed the International Date Line into 26th December, and we hadn't even finished hanging the mistletoe above the cockpit door
At least I'm having a 25 hour New Year's Day today, thanks to a Westerly Non-International Date Line flight.
Time travellers, that's what we are.
Regards,
Old Smokey