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Was the A330 the Qantas A332 that did TLS-SYD direct?
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TLS-SYD is 9290 nm, so that's probably the one they refer to.
LHR-SYD (the VH-OJA flight) is 9188 nm. Wasn't there an A340 flight from either TLS or CDG to AKL (just over 10000 nm) that claimed the record a few years after the OJA one? Interestingly, the Great Circle route from BFI to DAC is 'only' 6182 nm, and that takes you over Alaska, Siberia, China. Routing via (overhead) JFK and CAI pushes it just over 10000 nm. I wonder what the return route would be? Then of course there is the often contentious issue of what constitutes 'Around the World' - this attempt is entirely in the Northern Hemisphere, though Dhaka is reasonably close (about 1500 nm) to the Equator and almost on the Tropic of Cancer. Last edited by Michael Cleary; 8th December 2011 at 02:28 PM. |
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isnt for sailing around the world means crossing the equator at least once
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It was EBB and it flew TLS-MEL without the trim tank having any fuel in it. So missing 5000kgs of fuel.
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Thanks Todd.
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Looks like it did it. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE6
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Records achieved ....
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