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A chopper flies inside the earth’s atmosphere, which rotates with the earth (or otherwise it will be very stormy) therefore if you are standing on earth and the chopper is “staying” in the air you are both moving with the rotating earth

2006-12-19 23:10:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anas 3 · 0 1

It's all relative. If the chopper is stationary relative to you on the ground then it will always be seen in the same position. However, if it is stationary relative to, say, a cloud in the atmosphere then it will appear to be moving with the cloud and will eventually disappear over the horizon. Again, if it is stationary to, say, the sun then it would appear to move away at around 1000 mph as the Earth rotates and moves away from it. Basically it depends what you measure the 'stationary' position against.

2006-12-20 08:14:38 · answer #2 · answered by Timbo 3 · 0 1

it wouldn't look like it, because the air is moving too, at the exactly same speed. So if you stay in a chopper in the air above a certain point, you will move around above that point, because all the air moves, too. If you wanted to stay still, you would have to be flying in the opposite direction with about 1000 km/h.

2006-12-20 07:09:19 · answer #3 · answered by Ymmo the Heathen 7 · 0 1

I would say you'd need a lot of equipment to be able to accurately measure that you are in the same, finite point in space. This would have be irrespective of your geographical position. But the first answerer is correct - the atmosphere would influence your position, so to maintain that point in space you would need to travel against the earth's spin -

which, in effect, would be moving forward in the 'chopper'

2006-12-20 07:11:28 · answer #4 · answered by djessellis 4 · 0 0

Even though the earth is moving the atmosphere is moving with it. It's like a cushion of air around the earth you are still in. even though you are in the air you are still moving with the earth...

2006-12-20 07:08:48 · answer #5 · answered by Andrew S 3 · 0 1

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