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FullerH

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United Airlines has recently begun nonstop service from the Washington, DC, area to Beijing, China. They are conducting an advertising campaign in, among other places, the DC Metro subway system. One of their posterrs especially caught my attention. It depicted the Great Wall of China stretching over hill and dale until it suddenly morphs into a Chinese dragon. Most effective and amusing!
 
OK, in case I see it again, how do I transfer a cellphone image to this Forum? Please explain in simple plain English for one not necessarily all that computer friendly. :)
 
DaveH said:
nonstop, yow, they fly over the north pole?
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I should think that it is the Great Circle Route by way of Alaska, the reverse of how they flew the Freedom Birds out of VietNam or how one would fly to SYK's paradise in Singapore. When we flew to Zurich from Dulles last summer, it was by way of Gander, Newfoundland. Do you all remember when they grounded all of the airtraffic after the 9/11 attacks? This little town of Gander was swamped by some 60 or more trans-Atlantic jumbo jets that were not able to be turned around in time. The locals rallied and provided true hospitality for everyone for the next couple of days before they were able to fly out again. Try to remember that the North Atlantic Air Corridor is the busiest in the world and it was suddenly gounded for two days.

I am not certain why flying so far north is the most efficient way, but it seems to be whether you are going to Europe or to East Asia.
 
No, this poster is a purely artistic item. I will be on the lookout for it and will snap a pic with my cellphone if and when I see it next. It was on a Metro Red Line train and I saw it as I commuted from Metro Center to Union Station. They have just changed the signage in the Metro System, so I have a month to try to get a pic.
 
I tried looking the poster up on United's website, but to no avail. I am still looking for it on the Metro Red Line trains.
 
FullerH said:
I should think that it is the Great Circle Route by way of Alaska, the reverse of how they flew the Freedom Birds out of VietNam or how one would fly to SYK's paradise in Singapore. When we flew to Zurich from Dulles last summer, it was by way of Gander, Newfoundland. Do you all remember when they grounded all of the airtraffic after the 9/11 attacks? This little town of Gander was swamped by some 60 or more trans-Atlantic jumbo jets that were not able to be turned around in time. The locals rallied and provided true hospitality for everyone for the next couple of days before they were able to fly out again. Try to remember that the North Atlantic Air Corridor is the busiest in the world and it was suddenly gounded for two days.

I am not certain why flying so far north is the most efficient way, but it seems to be whether you are going to Europe or to East Asia.
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The flights were also grounded at St.John's (Nfld) international airport.
St.John's is my home town although i was living in Ontario during 9/11. There were a few thousand stranded passengers in St.John's. I did my degree at Memorial University in St.John's (biggest university east of Montreal). They housed a lot of the stranded passengers on campus, in the student center/stadium/gymnasiums etc.
Actually Nfld is the most easterly part of North America, surprisingly close to Ireland both geographically and culturally. I'm geographically closer to Ireland than i am to Manitoba! Thats why just after the first world war Alcock and Brown chose Nfld as the starting point for the very first nonstop transatlantic flight. The vikings stopped here around 1000AD. We also are the place where most of the earliest(early 1600's) European settlements were located. Maryland in the U.S was founded by Lord Baltimore AFTER he founded the colony of Ferryland on the southern shores of the Avalon peninsula in Newfoundland.
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FullerH said:
I am not certain why flying so far north is the most efficient way, but it seems to be whether you are going to Europe or to East Asia.
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I believe some of that puzzlement is due to the illusion of flat maps compared to the actual curvature of the earth.
 
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