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So, the plane starts to regain the lost momentum during this maneuver where the force points back to the eastward direction. Now it makes sense that I visualize it. Thanks to everyone who has chipped in. My understanding of how force distribution works for an airplane was lacking some critical...

So, I guess my question would be better addressed to an engineer who works with commercial planes, that is, if it's possible for such an airplane to sustain lateral winds of over 150 miles/h without being flipped over, until it gets again to 0 relative to earth's surface moving west to east.

I'm referring to the velocity it has relative to earth's axis of 1000 miles/h and how it will lose some of it after takeoff. I'm having troubles figuring out how it can regain it without rolling over due to lateral winds in a 90 degrees turn.

I'm sorry, I'm having issues wrapping my head around this. The engines still thrust the plane east to west before attempting the maneuver, so I fail to see how at any moment the plane can regain the lost 150 miles/h west to east inertia. Newton's first law says that the plane would continue its...

Sorry, but I don't understand... How could such a force point in the opposite direction without a 180 degrees turn? In a 90 degrees maneuver the plane would still maintain a west to east inertia of 850 miles/h.

So, the way I understand it is that the plane moves, while on a ground, at a constant speed of 1000 miles/h, west to east, relative to earth's axis. After it takes off, the engines act as an external force, lowering its initial momentum (that would be 1000 miles/h minus the planes minimum speed...

As someone who only knows elementary physics (so pardon me for maybe getting some things wrong), I have a question which troubles me and I'm having difficulties in finding an answer to: If a plane takes off at the equator and flies east to west, counter to earth's rotation, how it would be able...