# MinutePhysics — Why Isn't It Faster To Fly West?

A hand-drawn whiteboard explainer with no on-screen narration text. It shows why a plane gains nothing from the Earth's spin: the air spins with the ground. It ends on real flight-time data, a NASA jet stream clip, a recap diagram and a sponsor end card.

- Code: EX-0038
- Kind: Explainer
- Format: Talking-head explainer
- Brand: MinutePhysics
- Made by: Henry Reich
- Length: 126.0s · 26 beats · 12.4 beats/min · 1 hard cut
- Industry: Education, Media
- Style: Flat 2D, Hand-drawn, Minimal, Voiceover, Light UI, Data viz, Slow and deliberate, Maps
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gNkgj9h2oM
- Full breakdown: https://cutmap.co/v/minutephysics-why-isn-t-it-faster-to-fly-west

## The breakdown

The full breakdown has eleven sheets: Snapshot, Opening, Structure, Timeline, Rhythm, Look, Movement, Sound & words, Why it works, Production, Build brief. It is available to Cutmap Pro members at https://cutmap.co/v/minutephysics-why-isn-t-it-faster-to-fly-west.