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This is a good question, one that I myself have pondered upon in the past. The spin of the Earth does not only affect solids objects. The atmosphere is also spinning at the same rate as the Earth. From this it follows that when we are flying in an airplane, we are moving forward relative to what's around us: the Earth and its atmosphere. This is the same reason why we're not perpetually flying sideways when attempting to stand still: inertia.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoNot really. The Earth's rotation does affect the jet stream winds, and the jet stream generally increases the ground speed of an aircraft headed east, and decreases the groundspeed for an aircraft headed west.
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∙ 14y agoIt mostly doesn't. The only speed that matters to an airplane is AIRspeed, the speed at which the aircraft is moving through the air. If the air itself is moving relative to the ground, then the airplane will be carried along with it. And the air around the Earth moves pretty much with the Earth as it spins.
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