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Originally Posted by TAG UR IT
I DO recall watching a documentary on the plane and a pilot had said they daw 3 sunrises and 3 sunsets in one day...from circling the earth.
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I think that aircraft can be anywhere on the globe in 8 hours...don't quote me though. Besides the speed, they can see multiple sunrises/set because of the ridiculous edge-of-space altitude. You can see the curvature of the earth at the altitudes they flew at.