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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The more important forces in aviation have to do with the air masses aircraft fly through. Coriolis force does deflect winds to the right in the northern hemisphere and left in the southern hemisphere, but that is more relevant to how cyclonic vs anti-cyclonic flow works for weather systems, and is insignificant at the speeds aircraft operating in.

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