Sentences with phrase «great circle routes»

Ships no longer followed the great circle routes which minimized distance sailed.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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).

The great circle route GCR was used.

Maybe we should require all international flights take a great circle route.

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Running between Port Hardy and Bella Coola, the Great Bear Adventure Tour route gives visitors the opportunity to travel the southern portion of the Inside Passage and experience the majestic splendour of the Central Coast and northern Vancouver Island in one unforgettable self - guided circle tour.

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.

The amount of traffic has increased significantly, especially the number of flights to Asia, most of which fly out of North America using «great circle» routes that brings them over western North America and Alaska or over the Pole.

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.