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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

North South circumnavigation by PanAm in 1977

Jeranism pointed me to a recent N/S circumnavigation so I started thinking along those lines and found this wonderful little film.
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  1. felixMarch 31, 2016 at 7:20 PM


    fascinating video, Rick. Clearly they didn't go anywhere near the South Pole. But the flight was only about 11 hours which is a lot less than the current 15-16 hour maxmimum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-stop_flight Perhaps a flight over the Pole between Cape Town and Auckland is not impossible. Should be a clear view down.

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  2. RickMarch 31, 2016 at 8:47 PM

    ...you mean 15-16 hour MINimum right? And that would be at 1000 mph since the sphere is 15,000 miles in diameter. At half that speed, more reasonably, it should have taken 30 hours and even more with refueling stops. For comfort's sake, as well as refueling, it might have been a 2 day trip. Right?

    I'm not sure what you mean by the flight over the pole between capetown and aukland. Is that a quote from your wiki source? Thanks.

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  3. felixApril 1, 2016 at 1:40 AM

    No, they did some sort of great circle route from South Africa to New Zealand and said it was 11 hours I think. If one did a bigger loop round the "globe" one could take it over the Pole. I was only referring this third stage. The wiki source was only to give me an idea of how long flights are these days without refuelling.

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  4. RickApril 1, 2016 at 5:13 AM

    Ok-- so their South Africa to New Zealand 11 hour leg of the flight is suspect then. I wonder how they could have done it in 11 hours given today's required 15 hours.

    Earlier I got the globe diameter wrong-- it's 25,000 miles-- not 15,000. And at 500 mph it would take 50 hours not 30.

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    1. felixApril 1, 2016 at 9:50 AM

      The voice says 7550 miles just over 11 hours, average speed 532 mph. 43000 ft. Even that doesn't add up!

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Hi, I'm Captain Rick of the Virtual Circumference Voyage of Antarctica. I intend to prove definitively if Earth is flat or a sphere by paying careful attention to how many miles we cover as we travel "around" Antarctica. Flat earth theory says it's 50-60,000 miles. Spherical Earth theory says it 14,000 miles. Join me and ask any questions that you think would help our mission.

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