Is it possible to travel the world and be day time all the time?

Question

Is it possible to travel the world and be day time all the time?

Answer 1

Well if you could fly right around the world in a perfect line in 24 hours continuously without having to land to refuel then theoretically, yes.

Answer 2

1000 mph at the equator . closer to the poles ,the slower you need to go. at the pole in the summer you can stay still.

Answer 3

Probably, but not with your luggage if you fly with British airways.

LOL

Answer 4

Earth is approx. 24,000 miles around (or is it km?). 24 hrs in one day (pretty sure on that one). Travel at a constant 1000 mph (kmph?) in an westerly direction and you can do it.

Just looked it up 24,902 miles at the equator.

Answer 5

It happen all the time, last when I fly east, they want us to close all windows as it's too bright and others trying to sleep.

But I don't go to bed early like most and can't sleep, yet have to close my as well.

Answer 6

They grounded the Concorde, so probably not. You would have to travel in a westerly direction, so you would be trying to keep in sync with the sunrise.  

I agree with the person who said, 'Not if you want your luggage to accompany you.' David Frost once said, 'Breakfast in London, lunch in New York, dinner in Los Angeles, luggage in Caracas.' Some things never change.

Answer 7

The space shuttle orbits around every 90 minutes or so, so it goes around the world many times a day.

Doesn't it take 14 hours to fly from one side of the world to the other? So if you had a slightly faster jet (which do exist, although I doubt they can fly for 24 hours) then you could fly half way around in 12 hours and the other half way around in the next 12 hours,  and indeed if you were going the opposite direction of the earth's rotation and flying around the axis of rotation, and if you started in the daytime, it would stay daytime the whole time.

Answer 8

You need your own private jet, you need to carefully pick where you would refuel and ensure you had the correct fuel cards, credit cards and fuel agreements to do so.  I suppose, if you were to fly around the equator you could stay in daylight.  I doubt anyone is going to try it as it would be prohibitively expensive and it is something which could easily be proven with a computer simulation.

Answer 9

I don't see why not, the only issue would be trying to coordinate such a flight.

It would get pretty complicated I think.