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Originally Posted by oldE

In post 16985, I would take exception to the assertion that planes do not fly in a straight line. A great circle route drawn on a Mercator projection will often exhibit a curve because of the limitations of the medium. However if you take a string and use it to connect two points on a globe, what you see is a perfect depiction of a great circle route.

Those posts/figures on the Internet have always bugged me.

Carpenter's tools that were discovered in a wooden chest in one of the cabins of the Mary Rose which was sunk in 1545.