When a helicopter flies standstill in the sky, naturally land area, sea, mountains etc should necessarily pass through the helicopter, because the earth is always rotating. Will this actually happen?
Gravity keeps it binding to the same spot unless this is out of earth’s gravitational field !
#1 by meenu on August 27th, 2009
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when the helicopter faced the any tecnical foult and any problem then you must died and what you want to say it can not be possible
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#2 by Deepak on August 27th, 2009
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#3 by Nik on August 27th, 2009
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I remember reading or viewing something that if a helicopter hovers in one spot too long, it pushes too much air out of the way and can drop and or stall. Don’t know if this is true though but the earth and atmosphere are rotating at about .5 km/s.
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#4 by Anil S on August 27th, 2009
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Gravity keeps it binding to the same spot unless this is out of earth’s gravitational field !
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#5 by amansscientiae on August 27th, 2009
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Nope. The air is mostly moving with the surface of the Earth, so if the helicopter is moving with the air, it is basically standing still above the surface. And if the helicopter is not moving with the air, it is expending energy to compensate for air resistance. And that is what it needs to do in order to fly anywhere.
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#6 by kyle s on August 27th, 2009
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no because the atmosphere is traveling with the earth which is still pulling it, and because of gravity it will not move anywhere while it is just sitting there, these 2 things will keep it still.
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#7 by X X X on August 27th, 2009
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It is obvious that naturally land area, sea, mountains etc should necessarily pass through the helicopter, because the earth is always rotating.
But this can not happen until the helicopter keep binding the condition mentioned in your question that "does not move" mean stay stable at one place in atmosphere.
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#8 by Chris B on August 27th, 2009
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These will not be exact numbers, but close:
The Earth is spinning on its axis at about 1,000 miles per hour at the equator. The air (atmosphere) is moving with the Earth at roughly the same speed. So, if the helicopter were to travel at 1,000 miles per hour to the West, it would remain in "the same position" relative to the sphere of the Earth (but not to its surface). To put that another way, the ground moving under the helicopter flying at 1,000 miles per hour would be going the same speed at which the Earth is rotating.
So, the answer to your question is "no" because the air is moving with the Earth. The helicopter would have to "fight back" against the air at 1,000 mph to remain in "the same spot" so the Earth rotates below it.
I hope that helps! If it doesn’t, feel free to e-mail me and I’ll try to give a better explanation.
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#9 by inder on August 27th, 2009
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I believe that helicopter will move with it as the atmosphere is itself moving so the things in it would also move with it
for example a bird that is a howering bird fly in air and stay their for hrs in search of prey but it is always at same place after no of hrs
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#10 by Chandramohan P.R on August 27th, 2009
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Earths atmosphere is also moving with earth once in 24 hours to make one round,copter will be on the same place.
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#11 by Aregon on July 15th, 2010
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the simple question is if I stand in air in the same place in air some how , and after 10 hrs say, will I be @ the same position ? With Respective of the fact that air friction is existing. Will I not be able to cross international baoundaries by being still in air ??
#12 by JKS on November 1st, 2010
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