FIlght path-Dallas to Denver

Trip Start Jun 16, 2006
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Trip End Jun 29, 2006


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Friday, June 16, 2006

The flight path took us up through Denver then through the Pacific Northwest to Alaska. We could see the tops of mountains and glacier formations from the plane. I asked the flight attendant why we took a circular route instead of a straight one, and learned that there are two (very smart) principles: 1) Prudence and 2) Aerodynamics. Prudence because the route we took stayed over land instead of 8 hours over open water, and Aerodynamics because we maximized speed by following global jet-stream patterns. I can appreciate both of these! I have made reference-only entries for cities along our travel route to show the path. We only stopped in Dallas-Narita on the way to Guam, and Narita-Chicago on the way home to Atlanta.
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