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Why is the flight time of London-Beijing and Tel Aviv-Beijing the same?
Flight time between London and Beijing is around 10hrs nonstop.
Same goes for Tel Aviv and Beijing.
Why is that? there's a 5hrs flight that separates London from Tel Aviv. Does it have to do with ...
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Why fly along a rhumb line?
On April 4, 2012, El Al flight 4 from New York to Tel Aviv flew on an almost-a-rhumb-line route eastward rather than on the usual almost-a-great-circle line. (It passed over Portugal, but never over ...
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