Category: Travel
1. The Surprising Reason Why It’s Not Faster to Fly West
Feb 18, 2016 — Plane travel times do often differ depending on the direction of travel, but this is caused by wind currents in the upper atmosphere called jet (1)…
Oct 29, 2019 — Ever wondered why your flight heading east was so much faster than your westward-bound flight? Here’s the scientific reason.(2)…
Jan 25, 2021 — Riding on a river of air. The reason it took so much longer to fly back is the jet stream, a river of fast-moving air high up in the sky.(3)…
2. Why It’s Quicker To Fly East Than West – Simple Flying
Jan 8, 2021 — The reason for quicker flights while flying eastwards are jet streams. Put simply, they are fast-flowing, narrow air currents in the atmosphere (4)…
Jan 22, 2020 — The Earth rotates from west to east. And at quite some speed – at the Equator, rotational velocity is around 1,000 kilometers per hour. Thinking (5)…
Nov 5, 2019 — The real reason flights from west to east are quicker is down to jet streams. Jet streams are air pockets high up in the Earth’s atmosphere (6)…
3. Why do airplanes take longer to fly West than East …
Jun 27, 2015 — The jet stream is a very high altitude wind which always blows from the West to the East across the Atlantic. The planes moving at a constant (7)…
Dec 20, 2018 — If you plan on leaving on a jet plane this holiday season, you might be surprised to learn that traveling east is faster than traveling (8)…
4. Why Are Eastward Flights Faster Than Westward Flights?
Nov 4, 2019 — The reason why it is faster to fly east is because of jet streams. Jet streams are high altitude wind currents that move at hundreds of miles (9)…
Jul 17, 2017 — Jet streams are, at their most basic, high-altitude air currents caused by atmospheric heating and the inertia of the earth’s rotation—and they’ (10)…
Since it can’t match the Earth’s rotational speed, a westward plane technically travels east — just like the entire planet beneath it. It just has engines that (11)…
Why does it take longer to fly East to West than West to East? Which factors affect this? Does Earth’s spinning affect the time difference? Maybe the air 9 answers · Top answer: As Robbie’s answer implies, the answer is wind – Trade Winds govern what happens on or Missing: westward | Must include: westward(12)…
Sep 30, 2020 · 1 answerThis is simply due to the jet stream. High altitudes fast air current flowing west to east. Therefore if you are flying against them your (13)…
5. Why are flights shorter when flying from west to east?
Apr 9, 2019 — The reason for the different flight times is simply the wind. Ok, granted, it is way more complicated than just the wind, but you have to Missing: westward | Must include: westward(14)…
While Earth itself is spinning about 1,180 km/h to the east, the ground and everything on it are travelling even faster – at about 1,670 km/h (1,037 mph). Even (15)…
Westward flying generally gets headwinds. The strength of these prevailing winds, especially when a pronounced jet stream is part of the equation, can make a 41 answers · 2 votes: In the U.S., flying Eastward generally gets tailwinds. Westward flying generally gets headwinds. (16)…
6. Does the Earth’s rotation factor into flight time? – Quora
Its faster to fly eastward rather than westward because of the Earth’s rotation. This disagrees with all the other answers (which are basically correct), so I’ (17)…
Why are westward flights slower than eastward flights? Gravity; Jet streams; Time difference; Heat energy. Play! Icon of an airplane. Travel Trivia Logo.(18)…
Oct 29, 2019 — Ever wondered why your flight heading east was so much faster than your westward-bound flight? Here’s the scientific reason.(19)…
Aug 15, 2017 — Why does flying west take longer, especially given that the westward-bound plane would be going opposite the earth’s eastward spin?(20)…
7. Why Does It Take Longer to Fly from East to West? | Snopes.com
Jan 25, 2021 — It took six hours to fly and land the plane safely in Sacramento. So why was my flight to Hawaii, from east to west, so much longer than Missing: westward | Must include: westward(21)…
I’m travelling to France for a couple of weeks soon and talking about the flight this weekend I got into a debate with all my family and my …(22)…
2:06If the earth is spinning to the east at 1000 miles per hour why can’t we fly west more easily?Nov 20, 2015 · Uploaded by minutephysicsMissing: westward | Must include: westward(23)…
8. why are westward flights slower than eastward flights
why are westward flights slower than eastward flights. Hafele and Keating predicted time shifts of -184 ns for an eastward flight around the world and a (24)…
A flight across the U.S. takes longer East to West than it does West to East. When flying westward the headwind decreases the airplanes speed.(25)…
A cross-country flight of 4207 km (flying either eastward or westward) is scheduled to take 40 minutes longer westward than eastward.(26)…
9. Jet stream – Wikipedia
Not only does it cut time off the flight, it also nets fuel savings for the airline industry. Within North America, the time needed to fly east across the (27)…
Sep 23, 2021 — A cross-country flight of 4,035 km (flying either eastward or westward) is scheduled to take 57 minutes longer westward than 964 km/h; 4 answers · Top answer: here we are asked about a transcontinental flight, A distance of 4350 km and we are (28)…
10. Adjustment of sleep and the circadian temperature rhythm …
by PH Gander · 1989 · Cited by 81 — Adjustment was slower after the return eastward flight than after the outbound westward flight. The eastward flight produced slower readjustment of sleep (29)…
A transcontinental flight of 4350km is scheduled to take 50min longer westward than eastward. The airspeed of the airplane is 966km/h, and the jet stream it (30)…
Feb 8, 2021 — These symptoms arise after long flights to different time zones Most people find that jet lag is worse when traveling east than it is (31)…
Apr 25, 2017 — Airplanes flying eastward in a jet stream get a powerful boost, but those flying westward must fight an equally powerful headwind.(32)…
Schedules for Shifting the Timing of the Circadian System After Transmeridian Air Travel · by GD Roach · 2019 · Cited by 18 — Conversely, immediately after eastward flight, the circadian (33)…
jet flights around the world twice, once eastward and once westward, to to the atomic time scale of the U.S. Naval Observatory, the flying clocks (34)…
A transcontinental flight of 4350 km is scheduled to take 50 min longer westward than eastward. The airspeed of the airplane is 966 km/h, and the jet stream 1 answer · Top answer: openup 0.5cm
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Flight distance: 4350 km,
Time difference: 50 min,
Air speed of plane: 966 km/h. If the air plane is moving eastward, (35)…
Eastward travel is generally more difficult than westward travel. For many, taking flights that arrive at destination bedtime is a helpful maneuver.(36)…
by Z Boulos · 1995 · Cited by 184 — ment being generally faster after westward than after eastward travel. For flights across 5 to 11 time zones, mean reentrainment rates of 92 min/ day (37)…
Readaptation after an eastward flight took longer than after a westward flight. The alertness of aircrew on long-haul and short-haul flights was then (38)…
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(1). The Surprising Reason Why It’s Not Faster to Fly West
(2). Is It Really Faster to Fly East Than West? (Video) – Travel + …
(3). Why does it take longer to fly from east to west on an airplane?
(4). Why It’s Quicker To Fly East Than West – Simple Flying
(5). Why Does It Take Longer To Fly West? – Simple Flying
(6). It Really Is Faster To Fly From West To East, But Not For The …
(7). Why do airplanes take longer to fly West than East …
(8). Breakdown: Why it’s faster to fly east than west – Action News 5
(9). Why Are Eastward Flights Faster Than Westward Flights?
(10). Why It’s Faster to Fly East | Condé Nast Traveler
(11). If the Earth Spins East, Why Isn’t It Faster to Fly West?
(12). Why do flight times differ between traveling East versus …
(13). Why westward flight takes longer time? [duplicate] – Aviation …
(14). Why are flights shorter when flying from west to east?
(15). If Earth Is Spinning to The East, Why Isn’t It Faster to Fly West?
(16). Why does it take longer to fly west than east? – Quora
(17). Does the Earth’s rotation factor into flight time? – Quora
(18). Why are westward flights slower than eastward flights?
(19). Is It Really Faster to Fly East Than West? – Yahoo
(20). If Earth is Spinning East, Why Does it Take Longer to Go West?
(21). Why Does It Take Longer to Fly from East to West? | Snopes.com
(22). Do airplanes travel faster eastward or westward?: askscience
(23). Why Isn’t It Faster To Fly West? – YouTube
(24). why are westward flights slower than eastward flights
(25). A flight across the U.S. takes longer… – Algebra Online
(26). A cross-country flight of 4207 km (flying either | Chegg.com
(27). Jet stream – Wikipedia
(28). What is the assumed speed of the jet stream winds (in km/h …
(29). Adjustment of sleep and the circadian temperature rhythm …
(30). A transcontinental flight of 4350 km is scheduled to take 50 …
(31). Jet Lag: Symptoms: Causes, and How to Cope – Sleep …
(32). How Do the Jet Streams Affect Flights? – | Sciencing
(33). Interventions to Minimize Jet Lag After Westward … – Frontiers
(34). Hafele-Keating Experiment – Hyperphysics
(35). A transcontinental flight of 4350 km is scheduled to take 50
(36). Jet Lag – an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
(37). Light Treatment for Sleep Disorders: Consensus Report
(38). Aircrew fatigue – a review of research undertaken on behalf of …
