Air India proposes worlds longest flight...18 hours 8,000 miles...India to California..check out the route?

No it doesn't. That map is not complete. The entire Pacific Ocean is missing. From the other side,the trip would be much more than 8,000 miles. Grab any proper map, or even better a globe and see for yourself.

Even most of China and Japan are missing.

Do you even count to potato bro?

Just look at this:

[link to www.geographicguide.com]

Use a mileage calculator in google , it says the distance is roughly the same...
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Why does it seem dumb to you?

You gain time when you fly East to West and lose time when you fly West to East. You even gnomesayin bro? Timezones bro timezones. You fly East to West fast enough you go back in time. Gnomesayin?

So you think traveling over open ocean is safer? Regardless the distance in this case.

Just as a visual thing to travel over all of the continents...
I'm just thinking about it out loud...
Wrapping my head around it...
Does the world spin right to left?
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Flying in 1950s tech is getting so old. It's too bad the oil companies have a lock on modern propulsion technologies, because releasing them would make oil obsolete and they couldn't keep you on a leash.

We've had the transportation ability to safely fly the civilian population anywhere on the planet in less than an hour since the 80's. Sadly our masters are keeping us down on the plantation as slaves... therefore you have 18 hour flights.

When I typed in ....
Distance from India to Sanfrancisco it showed a line over the pacific....
A distance of 8,000 miles roughly
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Flying isn't safe either direction

This is not the flight to order the Curry Surprise on!

Give everybody their own toilet
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Last Edited by Brian8888 on 09/26/2015 11:23 AM

He's right you know.

Please do tell the distances. For an air company, even a small difference in fuel per flight means a lot nowadays.

No he's not. He completely ignores the practical challenges posed by supersonic flight, let alone hypersonic. Such as the costs of maintaining the kind of airplane needed. The companies are struggling even with today's planes.

Go and study what was necessary to keep Concorde or the SR-71 in the air. HUGE challenges.

Using a 777 twin engine jet they are restricted to flying within "120 minutes" of a divert field on one engine while crossing the Atlantic.

Great circle route is shorter, plus this is an artists' conception drawing, not to scale.

You are spending too much time in conspiracy forums and such.

The number of air passangers is now over 3 billion per year. That's almost half of the world's population. Looks like "our masters" are not doing a very good job at "keeping us down"...

If anything, there are too many people flying around, most often for futile motives, producing noxious fumes and burning resources for nothing.

Yup. Thanks for this correct technical answer.

Care to enlighten us and elaborate? I'm not talking about supersonic, hypersonic or even orbital flight. A 10,000 mile point-to-point trip in under an hour would require near Star Trek-level technology.

Aye. tears!

That is how India planned on solving it's overpopulation problem: Flooding America, Europe and Africa. Once that globalist treaty goes through, they will be sending Caucasian's to the FEMA camp to exterminate us, and replace us with people from India. They are already giving them all our job's, education and future.

Air travel should be slower. To prevent the spread of disease, and add more layers to the global economy. They should outlaw jet travel altogether for the good of the environment, the good of human health, and the good of the economy. Being able to travel so quickly, has brought more trouble to people, then benefit. Blimps would be fun.

I predict even more blood clots with people sitting that long. Hope they load as much alcohol as fuel on that flight.

Looking at my globe, it looks like a polar route over Russia might be closer.

maybe they should require everyone walk around the passenger area once an hour.

Me too
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Would be a lot faster if they flew straight there instead of in a giant circle.


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