RedDwarfIV Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 The Seahawk Rescue 3 aircraft can move fast enough to watch Kerbol rise in the west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PakledHostage Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Cool but I’m curious at what latitude? The Sun can already be seen to rise in the SW from an airliner on a generic mid-day, mid-winter flight from Europe to the NW coast of N. America (i.e. London or Frankfurt to Seattle, Vancouver, etc). Here on Earth you just need to cross more than 15° of longitude per hour to catch the Sun. Sub-sonic speeds are sufficient for that at high latitudes. I’ve seen it happen many times myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedDwarfIV Posted May 1, 2012 Author Share Posted May 1, 2012 Concorde could do it.Fairly sure I was just going straight west at 260 m/s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khyron42 Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 Congratulations! I\'m also amused that subsonic speeds are enough to do this, assuming that Kerbin\'s speed-of-sound is about the same as Earth\'s.Thanks to this thread, I researched on wikipedia and learned that the Earth\'s atmosphere is being dragged along at roughly 1.3 times the speed of sound by inertia and gravity (at the equator, less as latitude increases.) Interesting, a little scary, and something I should have already known from weather patterns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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