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Old 14th Mar 2014, 09:31
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awblain
 
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What about the apparent change in gravity due to flying westwards/eastwards at 450kts?
Do you mean the gentle decrease in the reaction force from the floor because you're following a curved path at speed? Which would also apply the same if you were going north-south? At 6000km radius and 300m/s that's about 0.15% of g.

Or are you worried about the relativistic corrections to timing, which are down at the 1 in 10-to-the-10 level, or the difference in co-rotation and counter-rotation terms in general relativity, which are stupendously small on scales of the Earth size and mass.
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