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Qantas gears up for the second "Project Sunrise" research flight
Sydney, Australia - The Australian flag carrier Qantas will fly a nearly empty a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner from London Heathrow to Sydney as part of “Project Sunrise”. The 787-9 registered VH-ZNJ will take off from Heathrow and fly directly to Sydney with no paying passengers onboard. (airlinerwatch.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Could be worse, I suppose. During the early days of WW2, Qantas flew the “Double Sunrise” route from Western Australia to Sri Lanka that took between 27 to 33 hours in a PBY Catalina & later, modified B-24 bombers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_Sunrise
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Double_Sunrise
Here's a brief look at what occurred on the flight brought to you by Sam Chui
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJP93u7n5Ok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJP93u7n5Ok
Did a 12+ Military charter from Oakland to Yokota AFB on a Northwest 747 w/400+ other military dependents & service personnel. Next up was a McGuire AFB to Torreón AFB then on to Saudi Arabia non-stop on a C-141.
No thanks on a 19 hour + flight.
No thanks on a 19 hour + flight.
They better have all seasons of Game of Thrones for me to be on a flight that long!
WOW! And I have trouble with 5 hours. I can not imagine being cooped up in an aircraft got 20 hours.
20 hours in an economy seat with person in front with seat reclined back sounds completely horrible would prefer the stopover
For those who describe long flights as torture? Attitude, attitude attitude!
Dreamliner economy is however, better than A380 economy. Especially as the A380 wags it's tail through the sky.