Following the directions given in the introduction to the activity, you have investigated some properties of air travel. You have learned that for an airplane traveling at a constant velocity and for a given amount of time, we can calculate the distance the airplane will travel. Also, if given any of the two variables of velocity, distance, and time, you can solve an equation for the missing variable. In this activity, you will take a virtual flight in an airplane. You must first decide the city from which you are flying, and in which city you will be landing.
Different airlines have different maximum velocities.
Two Boeing airliners are shown below. Choose the plane on which you would like to fly and find the maximum velocity for that airliner. Now that you have values for the velocity and distance variables, use the formula from the Range page to calculate how long the flight will take you. It takes the Concorde about 3 hours to fly from New York City to London, England.