Sun Times AERO Form

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[Music] earth rotates it rotates eastward but does it affect the speed of the airplanes or other flying objects does it speed up or slow down airplanes flying westward or eastward [Music] it appears that airplanes flying westward in the opposite direction of the earth's spin move faster than airplanes flying eastward in the direction of the earth's spin but actually it does not happen in fact the airplanes flying in the eastward direction receive a booster which will be explained at the end of this video [Music] as the earth spins everything inside on the surface in oceans and even the air also moves earth completes one rotation around its axis in 23 hours 56 minutes and four seconds on the surface the earth's rotation speed is different across the globe at the equator the rotation speed is much faster sixteen hundred kilometers per hour and as you get closer to the poles the rotation speed gets slowed down everything on the earth is moving with it at the same speed newton's first law