Celebrate New Year's twice - at a price!

Saw this on Facebook:

"Some people pay to party twice on New Year's Eve! With Private Fly, guests can bring in 2020 in Sydney, Australia and Honolulu, Hawaii! With the world rotating at 1,038 mph, the time difference between Sydney and Honolulu is 21 hours. Travelers fly to Australia in a Gulfstream G650ER to party hard, and then jet off to Hawaii to count down the final seconds of 2019 again. The price tag? A whopping $275,000 per ticket!!"

 

There was a ship that did something similar at the international date line in 99/2000

 

They had a similar thing on the Concord when it was still flying between London and NY.

 

Clay Lacy flew a party flight that was crisscrossing the time zone borders on date line so that they had multiple "new years". If I remember correctly he used his 727-100.

 

When I was younger I was after a hot blonde and I think I crossed the Unintentional Date Line when a pretty brunette showed up.

 

Earth's rotation speed (angular velocity is a constant) varies with latitude, so staying at a high latitude makes it easier to pull off two New Years or two same day events. 900 knots at the equator and about half that at 45 deg N or S, zero at the poles.

Bob- Which one did you land?

 

And Bob -- how was the hangar? Tight fit?

 

Neither, since it was an Unintentional Line, the earth was rotating in the opposite direction because both of them were Poles...and you know how Poles are.

 

Not quite. The linear velocity at a point on earth's surface is a function of the cosign of latitude. A ratio of 1 at the equator and 0 at the pole, but more like 70% at 45 degrees latitude...

 

Bob, you haven't lost your sense of humor!

 

Will- Yup. A little spherical geometry goes a long ways. Half was a bad estimate.

 

Those Poles weren't much. Only produced a few guys like Sikorsky, Severski, Kartveli, Piasecki, and of course, Pietenpol.

 

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A couple of those guys were Russian, but I know what you mean. (Heck, the area my ancestors came from changed over the centuries from Polish to Lithuanian to Russian and today is part of Belarus!) And did you know that Kartveli came from Georgia (not our Georgia, the other one)?

As for Bernie Pietenpol, I guess he was POLish in name only...

 

I knew that those Poles were sneaky , playing like they are Russians.

 

Helps when computing crosswinds too...