I was a guinea pig on the world’s first 20-hour flight — here’s what it did to me
The Boeing 787, travelling non-stop from New York to Sydney, became a flying laboratory
30 October 2019 - 05:05
I’ve endured the world’s newest longest flight, a 16,200km non-stop ultra-marathon from New York to Sydney. It took about 19½ hours, and was almost as demanding as that sounds.
The record-breaking Qantas Airways flight touched down early on October 20 in Australia. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner delivered its few dozen passengers — including yours truly — to their destination more or less intact, even though some of us were not quite sure what day it was...
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