Comments on: British Airwaves

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:32:19 +0000

A few people assure me it’s just headwinds. How dull.

By: Iain

Iain — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:38:42 +0000

Theoretically, flights from East to West should be slightly faster than flights from West to East, because you’re flying contrary to the Earth’s direction of rotation on it’s axis. I’m sure the effect is pretty negligible, though, because of considerations like the conservation of angular momentum. I’ll have to have a think about frames of reference, the effect of the speed of the Earth’s rotation on the airplane’s effective ground speed and the like and try and figure out how big the effect is… but I expect it’s probably minuscule.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:33:42 +0000

Heh. Saving them for a good night in? The only other thing I have in the way of medicine is a bottle of 12 year-old Armagnac. It hasn’t quite come to that, yet.

By: ImperialCreed

ImperialCreed — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:09:26 +0000

I’ve just recovered from a simialr infection – I had two golfballs in the back of my throat that looked suspiciously like tonsils, and the pain was near unbearable. Anyway. Prescription drugs are the way to go, so get thee to a physician lest you know someone who has some spare Clavamel pills lying around. Which I do, in fact. But you can’t have them.