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2 matches · Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commonsgreat circle navigation
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2017 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Long and short-range air navigation on spherical Earth
Global range air navigation implies non-stop flight between any two airports on Earth. Such effort would require airplanes with the operational air range of at least 12,500 NM which is about 40-60% longer than anything e…
- Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2014 ERAU Journal article (IJAAA)
Achieving global range in future subsonic and supersonic airplanes
No commercial airplane in service today is able to fly half great-circle distances over the globe and achieve the non-stop or the global range to any antipodal location on Earth.