¿Can you imagine being on a flightás de 20 hours in a row? the airíne Australian Qantas wants to have the flights sálong s in the world.
In order to expand its destination network from remote Australia to the world, the airínea to performá three special flights within Project Sunsire.
Project Sunsire
The Sunrise Project has the main objective of measuring, study and analyze the effects of flights of más de 20 hours in passengers, for this the aerosolínea plans a series of special flights.
during october, November and dicember, Qantas rescheduleá Aircraft delivery flights from Seattle Boeing 787-9 to cover the following non-stop direct routes:
- New York – Australia
- London – Australia
For the first time, I saw oneón commercial coverá the direct route between New York and Australia, while from London beá the second chance histórica (Qantas voló on 1989 with 23 passengers on a Boeing 747-400).
In these three special flights, only 40 people flyán included crewón major, smaller, passengers and experts who, with special equipment, measureán mental behavior fíphysical of the experiment on everyone on board, to theí be able to comply with autonomyírequired to be able to complete the flight, reducing the operating weight.ón.
Spaghettién, the airíI don't indicateó that is working with state regulatory entities so that they allow flights of this duration and longer.ón, along with minimizing carbon footprint.
The final objective of the study isá evaluate the possibility of opening direct flights from the east coast of Australia (in Melbourne, Sydney) to London and New York.
- Nonstop flights from New York and London to Sydney takeán around 19 hours each, subject to wind and weather conditionsáethics.
- the grandfatherón position yourselfá from the fábrica de Boeing and Seattle, where to beán collected from the líproduction lineón by Qantas pilots, And flyán to your New York departure points (for two of the flights) and London (for a flight).
- Además of the crewón, those in the cabin beán in its largestíQantas employees to participateán in tests. I don't know how to sellán seats as these flights are for research purposes only.ón.
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In these 3 flights, the aircraft beán Boeing airplanes 787-9 with an autonomyíto of 7,530 miles náuticas or 13,950 kilómeters, what it roughly represents 17 flight hours, but what wind conditions caníto increase until 19 y más hours.
If the studies are favorable, Qantas hopes to soon decide its avión of the super long-range future between the Airbus 350 and the Boeing 777X, of which already has firm proposals from each of the manufacturers.
Well. Many people get on a bus to pass between Latin American countries 30 hours in a row. What a difference. In a plane they first make a reconnaissance flight. With people for the experiments and people who are experts in the field to see their physical and psychological behavior. The upper social class is very delicate.
Good point, there are much longer journeys.
It is not the same by land as by plane, the effects are different.
Are they risking human lives to hold the record for the longest journeys??
Do you have any idea that any machine subjected to its maximum capacity is a candidate to fail much more than those that have an average performance??
It is precisely all that they are evaluating.
This is Qantas, a company specialized in long-range flights. I had the opportunity twice to fly from Los Angeles to Brisbane (Australia) on B747 with a time of 14,5 hrs. If it affects the time change.