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If airplane is in the air and earth moves, then do the plane reach it destination

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Answered by dmacadrish2
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A plane sitting on the ground is moving with the surface of the Earth, and while it appears to us to be at rest, it is actually moving at around 1,000 miles an hour (the exact value depends on your latitude). When it takes off, it still has speed from sitting on the ground. In order to fly east, the plane increases its speed relative to the surface of the Earth and begins to overtake it. Flying west it decreases its speed relative to the surface of the Earth, and the Earth slips by.

Here's a thought experiment. Imagine three moving walkways with a person standing on each one. Now let the person on the left walkway walk forward in the same direction as the walkway, the person in the center stay standing, and the person on the right walk backward in the opposite direction. All three people are moving in the direction that the walkway is moving, but the two people walking are moving in that direction more quickly and less quickly, respectively, than the person at rest. When the plane is sitting on the ground, it is like the person standing still on the moving walkway. The two people walking in same direction and opposite direction of the walkway are like the plane in air


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