Qantas will run 20-hour test flights to check how the human body copes with its planned ultra-long-haul routes.
The airline has announced its intentions to fly direct between both London and New York and Sydney – the world’s longest nonstop services.
The 10,573-mile journey from Heathrow is expected to take 20 hours and 20 minutes at an average speed of 520 mph. The most direct route would take the plane over Denmark, Latvia, western Russia, northeast Kazakhstan, China and the Philippines before making landfall in Australia close to Darwin.
The Independent