06/17/2025
🌍✈️ Why Flights Don’t Always Go Straight and Why That Proves the Earth is Round
Ever notice how some flight paths look “curved” on a map?
People love to question it … especially those clinging to flat Earth theories.
But here’s the truth from the travel and aviation world:
🌀 Planes fly in curves because the Earth is a sphere.
Those curved lines? They’re called Great Circle Routes, the shortest distance between two points on a globe.
What looks longer on a flat map is actually shorter in the sky.
💨 Jet streams, weather, and airspace matter.
Flights are carefully routed to ride the jet stream when possible, avoid storms, and steer clear of restricted airspace…
all while factoring in the rotation of our planet (yes, it spins!)
👀 You can SEE the curve from altitude.
At 30,000 feet, with a clear view out your window, you’re seeing Earth’s curvature firsthand.
No filter.
No tricks.
Just science and altitude.
🧠 So next time someone says, “Why didn’t the plane just go straight?” …
remind them:
Planes fly smarter, not flatter.
The Earth is round.
Our flight paths prove it every single day.
✈️🌎
