Pendulums are in the atmosphere and feel the effect of earths rotation.

The space shuttle moves beyond the atmosphere and benefits from earths rotation

Airplanes do not.

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Coriolis effects

In old-school navigation, the Coriolis effect was something the pilots had to manually account for. Snipers must account for the effect in their extreme long range work.

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