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Chris -- 2025-05-10
This would be the distance from one point to another as measured by the route of a 747. Rare.
If you’re thinking of improving it, it would be great not to take as-the-crowd-flies measures of distance, but actual walking distances.
rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/2003/.../london_tube_map.html
We are pretty safe in the lowland area and the fire is something like 30 miles from us as the crowd flies.
www.forestryforum.com/board/index.php?t … msg%msg…
While up there, three miles to the north as the crowd flies, there was a light sprinkle and then some timid sunshine.
www.newyorksocialdiary.com/.../socialdiary10_30_06.php
... he was more than just in the vicinity , he was in fact less than fifty metres away as the crowd flies.
jeneral.diaryland.com/050313_61.html
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