The same claim appeared in an Instagram post that accumulated more than 3,000 likes before it was deleted. “Airplanes will fly for hours at the same altitude, never dipping their nose down to follow the curve of the Earth,” says the narrator of a video in the Oct. One of the first things aspiring pilots learn is straight-and-level flight, a technique that involves maintaining control of a plane while staying at the same altitude and flying in one direction.Ī recent Facebook post, though, claims straight-and-level flight supports the long-debunked theory that the Earth is flat.
Watch Video: NOAA plane travels through the eye of Hurricane Ian The claim: Planes flying ‘straight and level’ prove the Earth is flat
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