A London-to-Sydney nonstop flight breaks record for world's longest commercial airline passenger flight in both distance and time
As experiments go, this one was pretty spectacular -- 19 hours, 17,800 kilometers , 100 metric tons of jet fuel and not one, but two separate sunrises.
Its time in the air of 19 hours and 19 minutes eclipsed the record set last year by Singapore Airlines' New York to Singapore route. The distance overtook Qantas's own record set just weeks earlier with another test flight from New York's JFK Airport to Sydney. The data is being gathered by researchers from the Charles Perkins Centre -- a University of Sydney medical research unit -- who will study how ultra-long-haul flying messes with health, wellbeing and body clocks.
If it gets the go-ahead, Qantas is hoping the next generation super fuel-efficient jetliners will be able to complete the journey with a more extensive passenger list -- albeit one leaning more towards first and business class customers.
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