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Dave L

February 26, 2005 03:24PM

Registered: 19 years ago
Posts: 10,222

Yep - its "Great Circle" routes. Maps distort the globe and make it look like its all on a flat square, when in reality its a ball. If you stretch a string on a globe from Vancouver to London it goes over Greenland and Scotland. If you do Vancouver Moscow it would go right over the north pole.

Dave L

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Subject	Author	Posted
flight time ?	Robert LaFrance	February 26, 2005 02:39PM
Re: flight time ?	Mercury Rapids	February 26, 2005 02:41PM
Re: flight time ?	Robert LaFrance	February 26, 2005 02:50PM
Re: flight time ?	Mercury Rapids	February 26, 2005 02:53PM
Re: flight time ?	Dave L	February 26, 2005 03:02PM
Re: flight time ?	Robert LaFrance	February 26, 2005 03:01PM
Re: flight time ?	Robert LaFrance	February 26, 2005 03:10PM
Re: flight time ?	John Wall	February 26, 2005 03:13PM
Re: flight time ?	Dave L	February 26, 2005 03:24PM
Jet Stream (n/t)	Stephen Tonkin	February 26, 2005 03:36PM
Re: flight time ?	Allan Shumaker	February 26, 2005 06:54PM
Re: flight time ?	Mercury Rapids	February 27, 2005 06:31AM

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