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Old August 26th 04, 10:15 AM
Paul Sengupta
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Old August 26th 04, 05:07 PM
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"Paul Sengupta" wrote in message . ..
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Holy cow! Only $200 worth of fuel to cross the Atlantic in under 13
hours... That's amazing.
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Old August 26th 04, 08:32 PM
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Now, I am impressed!

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Old August 27th 04, 05:47 PM
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Paul Sengupta wrote:
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This article claims that it is 1,300 nautical miles from London to
St.John's. Is this accurate? Two different mapping programs I have
give the distance to be more like 2,000 nautical miles. Which one is
right, and if my software is wrong, does anyone know of any good
software that will give me accurate measures of distance between any 2
points on the globe?

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Old August 27th 04, 06:02 PM
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Chris W wrote:

Paul Sengupta wrote:

http://ukga.com/news/view.cfm?contentId=2197



This article claims that it is 1,300 nautical miles from London to
St.John's. Is this accurate? Two different mapping programs I have
give the distance to be more like 2,000 nautical miles.


It looks right to me. Are you using the correct London? The flight
was from London, Ontario.

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Old August 27th 04, 06:33 PM
Chris W
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Peter wrote:

It looks right to me. Are you using the correct London? The flight
was from London, Ontario.


I was reading too fast. I had the wrong London. Those distances agree
with my software. BTW I am using Street Atlas USA 2004. While it
doesn't have any roads outside the USA/Canada it does have all the
country boundaries and major cities in the world.



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Old August 27th 04, 08:10 PM
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"Chris W" wrote in message
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I was reading too fast. I had the wrong London.


You don't happen to fly B-52's do you?

Ali


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Old August 30th 04, 04:44 AM
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On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:47:30 -0500, Chris W wrote:

Paul Sengupta wrote:
http://ukga.com/news/view.cfm?contentId=2197



This article claims that it is 1,300 nautical miles from London to
St.John's. Is this accurate? Two different mapping programs I have
give the distance to be more like 2,000 nautical miles. Which one is
right, and if my software is wrong, does anyone know of any good
software that will give me accurate measures of distance between any 2
points on the globe?



Try http://gc.kls2.com/ for a great circle program
Cheers
 




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