[color=var(--sub-header)]6. Ride a plane[/color]
If you’ve ever taken a trip out of the country, specifically long-distance trips, you could notice two interesting facts about planes and the Earth:
- Planes can travel in a relatively straight line for a very long time and not fall off any edges. They can also circle the Earth [color=var(--link-color)]without stopping[/iurl].[/size][/font][/size][/color]
- If you look out the window on a trans-Atlantic flight, you can, most of the times, see the curvature of the Earth on the horizon. The best view of the curvature used to be on the [color=var(--link-color)]Concorde[/iurl], but that plane’s long gone. I can’t wait to see the pictures from the new plane by Virgin Galactic—the horizon should look absolutely curved, as it actually is from a distance.[/size][/font][/size][/color]
We can stop right there. That entire article is a lie. Even Neil deGrasse Tyson admits that you cannot see curvature at that height. He even pointed out that in the famous "Red Bull" jump showed a curve fabricated by a wide-angle / fisheye lense and emphatically stated "that thing is flat".
No airplanes fly over Antarctica, and there is no "edge" to fall off.
But, now that you bring up planes. Going at the speed the travel, they would constantly have to correct for the curvature ever few minutes to avoid inadvertently increasing altitude as the surface falls beneath them. They have to do nothing of the sort. All the pilot training manuals clearly state that the principles therein are predicated upon a "flat nonrotating earth". I've seen interviews from professional airlines pilots and even a former F-16 pilot who have confirmed that the earth is flat. That F-16 pilot explained the various targeting systems in the plane and described how they could not work if there were any curvature of the globe.
This article you posted is amateur hour.
Baumgartner was FOUR TIMES the height of an average commercial airplane altitude. If there's any perception of curvature it's due to the limits of your vision. As you look in different directions, there's the perception of an arc due to your being at the center of a circle.
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