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Why does it take longer to fly from east to west on an airplane?
Skip Bailey, Aviation Institute Flight Training Coordinator and Instructor, University of Nebraska Omaha; ,
Monday January 25, 2021 - 13:29 EDT
This article was originally published at The Conversation
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I am a retired United States Air Force pilot and flight instructor , and a few years ago I was sitting in the cockpit of a Boeing 747 airplane. I was 29,000 feet in the sky, flying from New Jersey to Sacramento, California, and then to Hawaii. It took six hours to fly and land the plane safely in Sacramento. After a few hours in California, I continued to Hawaii,which took almost another five hours of flying. That was 11 total hours of flying.