On Sat, 11 May 2013 01:17:49 -0700 (PDT), Surreyman
wrote:

On Friday, May 10, 2013 6:34:15 PM UTC+1, David Hatunen wrote:
On Thu, 09 May 2013 18:40:15 -0400, Dave Smith

I have never been given a sleep mask on a flight, regardless of the time
of the flight.

It never occurred to me that I might need one. I had never been that far
north before.

I believe British Airways gives us sleep masks for flights from San
Francisco (and now Phoenix) to London.

We usually fly in late May or June. It's an overnight flight following
a great circle path. The flight departs in early evening and as you
fly toward the northeast the sun is off the left wing (I try to get
seats n the right side). As you fly over Canada and approach Greenland
the sun remains off the left wing. It never ctually sets and as you
fly from Greenland down to England the sun remains off the left wing.
But when you land in the morning there it's the next day.

You're in the northern hemisphere and the sun's in the north-west?

On June evenings, yes, of course. But during the flight the sun stays
pretty much off the left wing so as the flight progresses the sun
"moves" to due north and then on the leg to London to the northeast.