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Missing plane sent signals to satellite for hours
AP.org ^ | Mar 13, 7:57 PM EDT | By CHRIS BRUMMITT and JOAN LOWY

Posted on 03/13/2014 7:38:46 PM PDT by gooblah

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To: Smokin' Joe

Seriously? The B777 isn’t in space (we are pretty sure). Tell me, do you find easier to walk westbound? Like walking down hill? LOL.


261 posted on 03/15/2014 7:31:07 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat
The earth rotates to the east. The plane flies to the west. The plane is moving, but so is the earth. Airspeed does not equal ground speed. If the plane flies west at 500 mph (airspeed), and the earth is rotating at 1000 mph (equatorial), wouldn't the ground distance covered be greater than if the plane was flying east?

Seriously yourself. Seems like a legitimate question to me.

262 posted on 03/15/2014 7:58:40 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Ow! My head hurts.

The air that the plane flies in is “turning” almost as fast as the surface of the earth. Gravity is an amazing thing.


263 posted on 03/15/2014 8:07:42 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

Thanks, that makes sense.


264 posted on 03/15/2014 8:09:11 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Nonsense. Every craft flying in the atmosphere is part of the moving airmass. The atmosphere moves WITH the earth's rotation. Otherwise you would be subject to that same "1000 mph" effect yourself (too funny).

Only the case of of a craft outside of the atmosphere has effect like you are describing (ultimately, it must be outside the geosynchronous distance). The only effect on distance for aircraft in the way you describe it is winds at altitude. The "perfect circle" only exists in zero wind - and most certainly NOT in relation to earth's rotation. Like I asked, do you find it easier to walk WITH the earth's rotation? Seriously?
265 posted on 03/15/2014 10:43:21 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat

Thanks, but you could have saved yourself some typing by reading down thread. Seriously ...or not.


266 posted on 03/15/2014 11:33:47 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
Nah, this was more fun.

Try this, it could be real energy saver. Face west. Brace yourself. Then JUMP up. You'll immediately be moving west at "1000 mph." If you jump high enough you could travel a significant distance. Note: always live west of your work place. Walk to work (against the rotation of the earth), then jump home (quickly).

Just funnin' with ya. Gotta admit, sure sounds funny now, right?
267 posted on 03/15/2014 1:06:02 PM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat
Yeah. (Not to mention the 1000 mph tailwind.) It's usually a mite breezy here in ND as a rule, mebbe that 'splains it.

Sometime in the next six months, I think I'll take a day off. (Duh. Whatta brainfart)

268 posted on 03/15/2014 5:45:06 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Tzfat

If you are walking in an aircraft towards the nose your speed would be walk+500MPH. Your apparent speed would be 500MPH+


269 posted on 03/15/2014 6:54:53 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: USAF80

Or jump up in an aircraft and fly to the back at 500 mph. LOL. Ain’t amateur physics fun?


270 posted on 03/15/2014 7:55:11 PM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tzfat

Yea, we tested all those on training flights, LOL. The favorite was taking balloons up and watching them expand with altitude.


271 posted on 03/15/2014 8:07:43 PM PDT by USAF80
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To: Fred Nerks

Maybe it will show up in your neighborhood. ....an aircraft which imitates the legend of the Flying Dutchman,a legendary ghost ship of the air that can never make port and is doomed to fly the airways forever.? Ha!

Its actually a bit hillarious to see the MSM drive bys all in a tizzy, not being able to tell Tuesday from Texas.


272 posted on 03/16/2014 2:14:25 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Candor7

I’m inclined to believe the passengers died when the pilot suddenly increased altitude if that’s what happened, but just what a fanatical follower of Anwar Ibrahim might be capable of is the question. I hope for all our sakes he plunged that aircraft into the ocean, and it doesn’t show up again in a terror attack.


273 posted on 03/16/2014 3:17:57 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (uired to)
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To: Fred Nerks

First option-mechanical failure
Second option-intentional act
Third option-anything else

It would not be the first time that an airplane has disappeared. One vanished for over 60 years. They flew into a mountain and was buried under snow for decades.

We will know the full story once they recover the bird in one piece or many pieces.


274 posted on 03/16/2014 8:06:44 AM PDT by USAF80
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To: gaijin
RE: Pakistan destination. Breitbart now has a headline, "Missing Plane May Have Flown to Pakistan, Afganistan".
275 posted on 03/16/2014 12:28:29 PM PDT by TennesseeGirl (Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. - Edmund Burke 1790)
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To: Yaelle

Funny, thought the same thing,as she looks like my sisters step sister who is gay!!! Really almost identical...LOL!


276 posted on 03/16/2014 1:06:43 PM PDT by MarineMom613 (RIP Sandra Sue, my fur baby 12/31/1999 ~ 7/2/2010 - See you on the other side!)
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To: TennesseeGirl

I wish I could say I was happy that it now seems I might have been right....

:(

Thanks for pointing this out, though.


277 posted on 03/16/2014 6:09:11 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Fred Nerks

It seems that the alternatives are several, and they are narrowing by the hour. It will be a surprise if any happy ending ours. It seems that the facts can now reveal only a very nasty piece of work.

I heard this evening that the US Navy is concentrating its search just off the Western Coast of Australia.


278 posted on 03/16/2014 8:43:29 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Candor7
...I heard this evening that the US Navy is concentrating its search just off the Western Coast of Australia.

Maldives is where I would be looking. Nice big airport, all muslims.

WHERE IS MALDIVES

279 posted on 03/16/2014 9:33:47 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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