The yachts were hoping to make a quicker passage to the south of New Zealand to pick up the strong westerly winds which will carry them on their great circle route through the iceberg-strewn Southern Ocean.
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A much shorter route from Southern California could be used by flying a Great Circle Route north though central and northern Canada from Southern California, the distance to Iceland might be cut by almost 600 miles.
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I did wonder if it was an aircraft . We see 2-3 a month flying the great circle route but most of those are north to south and tend to be flashing lights rather than a glow.
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From there, it would turn north, flying along the U . S . coastline toward Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, then follow a Great Circle route over the North Atlantic toward Europe and its final destination in Egypt.
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The most optimal way for airlines to fly across the North Pacific takes the plane on a Great Circle route for which the half-dozen emergency airports are in Alaska, the Aleutian Islands and the Russian Far East.
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Shemya also continued to support the Great Circle Route for MATS and later Military Airlift Command transports between Japan and Elmendorf AFB . The 5040th Air Base Squadron was activated on 15 July 1958 to provide base support.
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Most receivers have the ability to compute a great circle route towards a waypoint, enabling them to find the shortest route even over long distances, although waypoints are often so closely spaced that this is not a factor.
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Researchers in Sweden and Iceland have now discovered that certain Arctic shorebirds accomplish this navigational feat as well, flying what amount to great circle routes on their annual summer migration across the Canadian Arctic on their way to South America.
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Blyth was involved with Whitbread as the race developed, but after a falling out with organizers, he began working on his vision of taking adventurers without any professional sailing credentials on a race that retraced his own Great Circle route.
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The location of the islands lay on a great circle route that is also perpendicular to the region of ( presumed ) uplifted land at the coast near Cape Mendocino and any energy distributed would be the strongest in that direction.
