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No.
The atmosphere has the same rotational velocity as the earth and so it is for all practical purposes stationary with respect to the flight of the aircraft in any direction. Any object on earth or in the atmosphere has the same rotational velocity.

You may however observe differences in time on a round trip, this is due to favorable/adverse tail/head winds and has nothing to do with earth's rotation.

2007-03-26 07:08:04 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 1 0

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2016-11-23 17:03:49 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Your speed is relative to air and the air surrounding earth rotates with it. So the travel speed depends on the windspeed. For example to fly to europe from the american east coast, you fly faster toward the east due to the G stream. So a trip which takes 6 hours west to east, takes 8.5 hours east to west. So you see, the faster trip is done WITH the rotation of the earth not against... and it is only due to windspeed.

2007-03-26 07:09:41 · answer #3 · answered by catarthur 6 · 0 0

I have traveled from Phoenix AZ to Jakarta Indonesia several times. I wondered the same thing as you the first time, but the flight time is pretty much identical both ways.

2007-03-26 06:50:58 · answer #4 · answered by Thegustaffa 6 · 0 0

no

2007-03-26 06:50:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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