Friday, September 9, 2011

GIS Lab 2- Ex. 3c

7. In exercise 3c, while using the attribute table to find the cities, Earhart and Noonan encountered 28 cities during her flight journey.
8. While "Sorting" the length field of Earhart's flight, the shortest leg came out to be 793 kilometers (492 mi.) from Khartoum, Sudan to Massawa, Ethiopia coast to the Red Sea.
9. What was approximately the longest leg of her flight? -The longest leg of the flight was approixmately 3184 km. from Natal, Brazil across the Atlantic to Saint Louis, Dakar but the aviators were 175 km off course to Dakar , so with better flight plans it would of been 3009 km.   

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