Why Do All The Planes Fly This Line?
Published September 24, 2026
This video has 4.77M views and 131K likes, ranking #989,347 globally among tracked YouTube videos by view count.
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4,779,090
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131,622
Comments
618
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If the shortest path across the Atlantic is here, why do all the planes fly on a different path? At the equator, the ground is moving about 1,600 kilometers per hour, but at the poles, it’s zero. So when the warm air flows from the equator to the poles, it starts to outrun the ground below it and curve! This is the “…
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- September 24, 2026
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