Sentences with phrase «circle route»

From Halifax, most westerly routes would have taken them along the Gulf Stream too, as opposed to the cold central North Atlantic they would have crossed if they had followed a great circle route from New York, say, or Miami to Liverpool or Southampton or London.

Take the city circle route from Central Station and enjoy the ride.

I particularly like the view from the great circle route connecting Copenhagen to Seattle, so I have managed to get a «geologist's seat» (window seat, in front of the wing, on the shady side of the plane, take your binoculars).

Great circle routes take Asian bound aircraft across the general westerly flow of the upper level winds.

Or have enough education to know about the shortest - and - fastest great circle routes, and that this particular one led to Johannesburg?

By using the sun to orient themselves, tundra - breeding shorebirds end up approximating the «great circle routes» used by airplanes and ships — routes that minimize the distance between two points on the surface of a sphere.

But this fortuitous mistake allows the birds to fly south in trajectories approximating the great circle routes that minimize travel distance, saving them valuable energy.

Using it, ships and airplanes can cross the oceans along «great circle routes» that look circuitous (when displayed on a flat map) but which in fact follow the straightest, quickest way across.

The circle route over the breathtaking Swartberg Mountain Pass, to the town of Prins Albert, and back through the beautiful Meiringspoort valley is a definite must - do!

If there are shortest - and - fastest paths, some evolutionary equivalent to a great circle route, we sure don't know about them yet.

Aircraft operations can be optimized for energy use (with minimum CO2 emissions) by minimizing taxiing time, flying at optimal cruise altitudes, flying minimum - distance great - circle routes, and minimizing holding and stacking around airports.

I think that convoys would have travelled more widely during the war than pre-war traffic, which presumably would have chugged along the great circle routes.

The Pacific decadal variability is thus amplified, which triggers pronounced atmospheric circulation anomalies extending from the tropical Pacific along a circle route into the Atlantic.

These techniques help the project navigate among the storm cells, traffic, and hostile terrain that affect even the best great - circle routes.

Just as a great - circle route, on the proper map, seems more reasonable, a planned project, in the hands of a properly trained legal project manager, will appear to follow the shortest course after all.