Northwest Passage becomes more useful to humanity

[james_davis_nicoll]

Inconvenient ice disappears from from potentially useful Northwest Passage.

Comments

[yud.livejournal.com]

(While the northwest passage isn't that close to the North Pole, the distortions are still enough that it's better to use transverse coordinates instead of normal coordinates.)

[genomekelly.livejournal.com]

Something akin to this was implemented by the U.S. Strategic Air Command in the late 1950s/early 1960s for over-the-pole nuclear bombing missions. As I recall, the B-58 navigation system had dual-coordinate capability with the flip of a switch.