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puddin:
--- Quote from: TARAsia Fan on November 02, 2007, 11:53:33 AM ---I would think LA would be the finish line, but you never know.
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Thats what I think too TARAfan -right back where they started.
Kogs:
--- Quote from: puddin on November 02, 2007, 11:54:29 AM ---
--- Quote from: TARAsia Fan on November 02, 2007, 11:53:33 AM ---I would think LA would be the finish line, but you never know.
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Thats what I think too TARAfan -right back where they started.
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any1 up for calling the playboy mansion :lol:
moox03:
by port i meant it generally (ie port of call), but yes, it is an airport (BLR) not a seaport
apskip:
TALES FROM THE FLIGHTS
I appreciate your desire for AR12 to follow a traditional path back to the lower 48, puddin. There is one way that it could have happened, but that requires you to either disbelieve the certainty of Peach's findings about when fliming occurred at Girdwood or to believe that the FINISH was close to midnight on July 29 in Los Angeles.
The easy way is if teams left Taipei much earlier than anticipate, specifically at 0345 on July 28 on CI 11, landing at ANC at 0630 on July 28. That would give them less than 18 hours to do what has to be accomplished in Alaska and then on to AS942 departing at 1220 July 29 nonstop to LAX arriving at 0627.
The hard way is for teams to arrive in Anchorage as planned at 0915 on July 29, do what has to be done in 4.5 hours(include a 77 mile roundtrip from Ted Stevens International Airport to Girdwood), and get AS94 departing to Seattle at 1355, connecting there to AS410 and arriving LAX 2120. There are about 2.5 hours left before midnight and it would be a truly historic late-night FINISH LINE. This option has a total incredulity about it.
The earlier arrival actually is feasible if all the timeline is pushed back accordingly. My difficulty is believing that Peach's information was not correct(which I don't).
apskip:
On we go. I have previously cited 3 different favorite cities, Moscow, Beijing and Shanghai, for the 7th leg UNKNOWN location between Vilnius and Osaka. Here are the relevant flight details so you can get an idea of the pros and cons of each one:
July 22 FROM VILNIUS
To Moscow (SVO) TE338/TE407 departs VNO 1020 connects in KIEV, arrives 1545
LO7721/LO627 departs VNO 1145 connects WARSAW arrives 2005
To Beijing (PEK) OS834/OS63 departs VNO 1510 connects VIENNA arrives 1125 +1
TE1138/AY51 departs VNO 1805 connects HELSINKI arrives 1150 +1
BT115/SK995 departs VNO 1820 connects COPENHAGEN arrives 1155 +1
To Shanghai (PVG) TE420 1130 1300 connects FRANKFURT MU220 departs 1420 arrives 0700 +1 Alternative later flight is LH727 1735 0955 +1
July 24
FROM SVO to OSAKA AY154/AY77 1255 0845 +1
FROM PEK to OSAKA 5 flights from 0920 to 1620 departure arriving about 0340 later(2 hour 40 minute flight plus one hour time change)
FROM PVG to OSAKA between the time range of 850am to 2020, there is at least one flight every hour except none between 1325 and 1655 arriving about 0300 later (flight is 2 hours plus one hour time change).
The conclusions that can be drawn from this analysis is the total time to get through the 2 legs(including time zone changes) since the time zones between Vilnius and Osaka are the same for each combined route there. I get approximately 25 hours through Moscow, 24 hours through Beijing and 22 hours through Shanghai(despite the fact that from Vilnius that route went back to Frankfurt before moving east). It looks to me that in a shortened race preference will go to the most efficient route. That would be through Shanghai, but we'll see if that's the way that AR12 actually goes.
One thing that I am convinced of is that the alternatives to the south (all Indian cities, Bangkok, Singapore, etc.) are too costly in extra time to have been used in a race that was in a hurry.
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