It depends on where you are in the world, but south America is in the more southwest part of the world. In fact, the Equator passes through the Amazon Valley of South America. Thus, we can say that...
is about 17-19 hours of flying on a airplane That is incorrect, unless you have a SLOW prop plane. It is about 2,000 miles - close to the distance of New York to Denver (4 hours by jet and 20 hours...