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They don't. Flights are canceled all the time, especially long haul flights. See this quote by travel writer Maggie Teneva:
“Long-haul flights are often associated with long layovers and delays or cancellations.”
If there are unexpected changes to the jet stream or winds mid-flight, a non-stop flight might even stop for fuel:
“ Dozens of Continental Airlines flights to the East Coast from Europe have been forced to make unexpected stops in Canada and elsewhere to take on fuel after running into unusually strong headwinds over the Atlantic Ocean.
The stops, which have caused delays and inconvenience for thousands of passengers in recent weeks, are partly the result of a decision by United Continental Holdings Inc., the world's largest airline, to use smaller jets on a growing number of long, trans-Atlantic routes. ”
Per ETOPS, plane flight routes are required to be in vicinity of airports or landing strips for unexpected stops like that. Even long haul flights over oceans need the capability to make detour routes to islands with landing strips in case something like the above happens. The US Military is even known to maintain landing strips on certain uninhabited islands in remote locations for ETOPS purposes.
The vaccine was created to modify political views and eventually control the mind; ironically, the people most likely to take the vaccine were the least in need of mind control. They were already subservient to big brother. You wouldn't notice any difference in their behavior before and after taking the vaccine.
I would say it is a good thing the routes are spaced so far apart.QuoteWhy are westbound transatlantic routes located hundreds of km away from eastbound routes?
You're talking about the jetstreams as being a constant phenomenon.
They aren't, they are variable, in location, direction and velocity. Like I said, its just a wind. If its above 60 kts, as you say, they term it a jetstream, but its still just a wind.
And you are absolutely correct that favourable jetstreams (like other winds) are exploited for the purpose of speed and economy, but if the jetstream is absent, or unfavourable, the flights still occur.
Just look at the post-Covid-resurrected Qantas/LAN services between Chile and Australasia; they take place on schedule every time, eastbound and westbound. They can't be that anomalous can they?
Now try Googling Air France flight AF174 on 8 May. (Or here's a link);
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/af174?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com#351eba3d
Airbus A350 F-HUVC departed Paris CDG as AF174 for Mexico City but developed a problem over Newfoundland and returned to CDG. Flight tracking data shows that the return leg was performed almost completely along the same route and at a similar altitude as the outbound leg. Pretty dumb with a 300mph wind wasn't it, or maybe the airline actually knew the windspeed?
Why are westbound transatlantic routes located hundreds of km away from eastbound routes?
Looking at flights between NY and London (click to see route):
BA 185 (EGLL - KEWR)
United 941 (EGLL - KEWR)
United 16 (KEWR - EGLL)
The FlightAware anticipated routes are quite similar in both directions, but the actual routes for past flights are really remote from each other:
The two westbound routes are either 800 km north or 1,000 km south of the eastbound route (the dotted line shows the shortest path).
Why are the two westbound routes different and so remote from each other? Why this difference of about 1,800 km?
Why BA 185 route seems to be composed of two arcs?
Did the pilots changed their mind in flight because of the jet streams? Is it related to ETOPS constraints, or alternate airport at Santa Maria? or something else?
A jetstream is just a wind, and I accounted for it in my calculation. A look at any jetstream map will show that they are predominently westerly in the southern hemisphere, which corresponds with my previous statement and, if it is assisting the eastbound flight will it not be hindering the westbound which is occuring simultaneously and at similar latitudes?
We've also done Jeran's thing before. Simultaneous to the "supersonic" speeds is a series of altitude changes which an F-16 would struggle with. Its just a batch of missing data on aircraft position; when it recovers the position data it integrates the delta-position over time to determine speed.
Rowbotham's original society solved the sinking ship.Did it, though? He spends some time in ENaG claiming that things like ladies dresses disappear bottom first on a flat path, which they don't. And then he claims that ships which have gone over the horizon can be "restored", which they can't.
Quote from: AllAroundTheWorldBut in any case, your "experiment" simply demonstrates the part I already wrote in bold above. The very thin hull in your picture will become hard to resolve at a certain distance. And yes, in that case optical magnification could "restore" it. But the reason it can be "restored" is that it isn't hidden in the first place. It isn't behind anything, it just becomes difficult to discern at a certain distance.
Which is exactly what Rowbotham is describing in Earth Not a Globe. When bodies are smaller than 1/60th of a degree they become lost to optical resolution, and are beyond perception. So, you were wrong. This effect does exist and it is reversible with optical zoom.
QuoteLady Blount's society collected the professional surveyor and railway proofs.Did they? Well where are those then? I looked her up and found something about some photo they took. It's here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth,_Lady_Blount#/media/File:Blount-photo-bedford-level.jpg
What the hell is that supposed to be?!
The Old Bedford Level was the scene of further experiments over the years, until in 1904, photography was used to prove that the earth is flat. Lady Blount, a staunch believer in the zetetic faith hired a photographer, Mr Clifton of Dallmeyer's who arrived at the Bedford Level with the firm's latest Photo-Telescopic camera. The apparatus was set up at one end of the clear six-mile length, while at the other end Lady Blount and some scientific gentlemen hung a large, white calico sheet over the Bedford bridge so that the bottom of it was near the water. Mr Clifton, lying down near Welney bridge with his camera lens two feet above the water level, observed by telescope the hanging of the sheet, and found that he could see the whole of it down to the bottom. This surprised him, for he was an orthodox globularist and round-earth theory said that over a distance of six miles the bottom of the sheet should be more than 20 feet below his line of sight. His photograph showed not only the entire sheet but its reflection in the water below. That was certified in his report to Lady Blount, which concluded: "I should not like to abandon the globular theory off-hand, but, as far as this particular test is concerned, I am prepared to maintain that (unless rays of light will travel in a curved path) these six miles of water present a level surface."
—The Zetetic Website
EA and UA are admittedly pretty good explanations for certain observations BUT they are just that.
This is an issue with your way of enquiring. You form a theory which explains observation rather than forming a hypothesis and then making observations which test that hypothesis - which then becomes a theory as observations build confidence. I know this is deliberate, and working the other way around could lead to the same conclusions. The issue though is when observations are presented which show your theory to be wrong you just claim they're wrong/flawed/fake. That's not a way to make progress.
QuoteIf you ask me what is happening on earth thousands of miles away, there will be less research there. The total world model is a topic for the next generation of FE to figure out.Is it, though? There are flat earthers all around the...disc, right? And we have instant communications now.
There are surely ways you can do large scale experiments reasonably cheaply. I'm sure you could club together and get a ticket for a Santiago to Sydney plane ticket, a FE person on that flight could gather a load of data which would help you advance things.
