East African Air East African Air East African Air is an airline based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and is a start-up airline planning to operate from Dar-es Salaam as hub to regional destinations and Europe and America. The company was founded by African Diaspora businessmen originally from the Eastern part of Africa which comprises Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda. Fly East African will obtain traffic rights to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. East African Air Limited is a registered UK Private Limited Company with plans of floating on the AIM stock market in 2010, and has received investment over £2m primarily from European
Equator is commonly modeled as a sphere flattened 0.336% along its axis. This makes the Equator 0.16% longer than a meridian (a great circle passing through the two poles). The IUGG standard meridian is, to the nearest millimetre, , one arc-minute of which is , explaining the SI standardization of the nautical mile as , more than less than the geographical mile. The sea-level surface of the Earth (the geoid) is irregular, so the actual length of the Equator is not so easy to determine. "Aviation Week and Space Technology" on 9 October 1961 reported that measurements using the Transit IV-A