An A340-200 (yes, a 4 hairdryers job no less !) prototype did Paris to Auckland in June 1993. Great Circle is 11,516 mi (10,007 nm), over Siberia and Japan, where they probably had to do a bit extra. Anyone know the actual track distance they did ?
Are Boeing sure about the 1989 flight of the QF 747-400 nonstop delivery flight London to Sydney they cite as a previous record ? (although the above shows it is not currently held). I can remember this flight going overhead me in Buckinghamshire on departure from Heathrow and always thought it was London to Perth, the record it set being the first UK to Australia nonstop.
Last edited by WHBM; 9th November 2005 at 15:40.