6 minutes agoThe world's longest flight realising, lasted over 19 hours
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The Australian airline, <x0Qantas”, has successfully performed a test flight from New York in the United States to Sydney, Australia without interruption. This flight has entered history as the longest flight of a commercial plane. Carrying 50 passengers and crew members, flight number “QF7879” was made with [...]
Carrying 50 passengers and crew members, flight number “QF7879” was made up of a “Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner” and finished on Sunday morning in Sydney, Australia, after a trip of 16 thousand and 200 kilometers, which lasted 19 hours and 16 minutes.
Chief executive of the company “Qantas”, Alan Joyce, who was among the travelers, said after the flight ended: “This is a truly historic moment for our company, a truly historic moment for Australian aviation, and a truly historic moment for world aviation”.
After increasing the demand for air transport and improving aircraft performance, airline companies are aiming to achieve more long-distance flights. The International Air Transport Association expects the number of travelers who use this type of global transport to rise from 4.6 billion this year to 8.2 billion by 2037.
The purpose of this flight was to gather data on the effects of long flights to travelers, including sleep and melatonin levels among crew members. A team of researchers also conveyed the state of the pilot's brain through special equipment for brain monitoring.
This company is planning to realise another test flight, this time from Sydney to London, and expects it to be decided by the end of the year whether to launch these flights for ordinary travelers. If it is positively decided, they will start in 2022 or 2023, writes the Guardian”, broadcast Express.
