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Originally Posted by James Smith
B717 VH-NXD has left CBR for APW (5 hours) as SXI2366 on the first leg of its ferry flight to VCV. I read somewhere that a temporary fuel bladder had been fitted to increase the range of these flights, hence the more direct Pacific crossing for NXD and not over the northern Pacific or through Europe.
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She's coming back to SYD after doing a few loops over NLK
No indication of why.
(side note: must be some gnarly headwinds, looking at the ground speed it has dropped by 100-150kts)