The link in the OP won’t open for me but its good Sean started the discussion. I’ve wondered why someone, anyone, doesn’t just do a simple experiment and settle the question. All that is required is the ability to navigate a flight path in a straight line. It doesn’t matter where one starts, but I’ve selected a particular path because I’m familiar with it (I use to live in Colombia and I worked for a few months in East Africa).
1. Start at Bogotá, Colombia’s Eldorado International Airport (latitude = 4.624335 north) heading due east, just north of the equator.
2. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean and arriving at the west coast of the African Continent, stop at Leon M’Ba International Airport in Libreville, Gabon (latitude = 0.390100 north). The plane can be refueled, provisions taken on, and everyone can get off to stretch their legs.
3. Taking off and heading due east across the African Continent there are two good choices for a place to land, refuel the plane, take on provisions, and where everyone can get off to stretch their legs:
a. Entebbe International Airport in Uganda (latitude = 00.020 north);
b. Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya (latitude = 1.31916666667 south)
4. Now the expedition heads out again, traveling due east and more or less along the equatorial line. This route takes one out across the Indian Ocean to the island of Sumatra in Indonesia and then the Indonesia part of the Island of Borneo. There are several airports one could land at. For this example I selected Changi International Airport in the City State of Singapore (latitude = 1.359167 north). After taking on fuel and provisions and our intrepid explorers having had the opportunity stretch their legs, it is now time for the final leg of the journey, regardless if the earth is a flat plane or a sphere.
5. Taking off from Changi Airport the plane is again heading due east across the Pacific Ocean more or less following the equator. On this route another land mass or “solid feature” won’t be encountered until either:
a. The plane arrives back at the West Coast of Colombia, having circuмnavigated the globe, or
b. The plane arrives at the end of the flat earth plane, or the “firmament”, or whatever is out there “on the edge”.
As it may come up, and one of the posters on this thread loves to bring it up, let’s talk about the Antarctic Treaty:
A. This treaty was signed on December 1, 1959, so it had ZERO impact on the thousands of explorers before then who have probing the earth’s boundaries for millenniums, and none have seemingly been to the edge.
B. The Antarctic Treaty ONLY applies to the earth territory that is “beyond” or “past” or “south of” latitude = 60 degrees south. As one will observe, the path of exploratory travel I described stayed with a range of 4.624335 north and 1.31916666667 south. It went NOWHERE near the area covered by the Antarctic Treaty.