Landing before you leave: flights that travel through time
Who doesn't know Back to the Future? The iconic 1980s/90s movie where Marty McFly and the mad scientist wandered into the past [...]
Who doesn't know Back to the Future? The iconic 80s/90s movie where Marty McFly and the mad scientist wandered into the past thanks to their fantastic DeLorean flaming!
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Although technology has made great strides, time travel remains only a theme science fiction From movies and television series... or not?
In a sense "time travel" è possible, or rather, fooling the clock is possible, if only to a few hours. How? Simple, by taking advantage of the time zones And air travel.
Time zone has always fascinated me, as a child I didn't understand why in Australia they celebrated hours earlier on the New Year's Eve, since we still lacked a lot at midnight. Now it is fascinating to get on a plane and land at the same time as when we left or even first Of the flight departure time.
Flights that travel through time
The pioneer of flights that land before they leave was the famous Concorde, the supersonic aircraft, who on his first trips left London Heathrow at the 10:30 in the morning and arrived at New York JFK at 9:25, or one hour abundant first Of his departure from London.
Or when he was leaving from Paris CDG at the 10:15 and arrived in New York at 8:15, well Two hours before departure!
Flights Europeans most famous with which we can experience this curious phenomenon are not long-distance, some are even below the 1,500 km of distance from point A to point B, enough to deceive Our perception of time.
Most involve Turkey and Russia, but also other destinations such as Belgrade, Dubrovnik, Podgorica, Pristina, Sarajevo, Skopje, and Tivat. For example, the Montenegrin capital Podgorica is connected to Istanbul with two daily flights, one at 8:30 a.m. and the other at 7:40 p.m., both arriving 15 minutes before of their departure, thanks to the one-hour time zone change.
Le routes world with time zone changes are several, estimated to be over 530 and almost 7 out of 10 of these flights are between the United States, Canada and Europe. The average discrepancy time between departure and arrival is about 78 minutes.
In general, this bizarre phenomenon occurs in all countries that have a large extension, or when you cross the threshold of "half the planet." such as flights that depart from the Australia/New Zealand and Japan area and are bound for the United States or South America:
As we can see from Google Maps, all flights going in the direction "counterclockwise" Undergo this phenomenon. In fact, they cross the timeline which divides Oceania/Asia from the Americas and thus the time zone has a 7 to 9 hour gap, making us land Before we left.
The most brief and with the discrepancy greater for now is in Canada, from La Romaine Airport to Natashquan. It is from only 80 km mileage, sufficient, however, to get it started at the 12:20 and then land at the 11:35, incredible isn't it?
And have you ever landed before you left? Have you ever "time traveled"? Let us know in the comments!
