Simviation Forum - Record flight landed

Nov 10^th, 2005 at 8:15am

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Well It looks like Boeings new 777 has broken the record for longest flight. It flew from Hong Kong to London, going east over the US.

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Reply #1 - Nov 10^th, 2005 at 10:17am

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Non-stop ?......well thats a long time in the air......watch out for the blue ice below that one Wink

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Reply #2 - Nov 10^th, 2005 at 2:14pm

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Wow.. do you have link to that??

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Reply #3 - Nov 10^th, 2005 at 2:33pm

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051110/ap_on_re_eu/record_flight;_ylt=ApEBH02sAnNRr...

Yup nonstop. 23 hours almost. over 13,000 miles.

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Reply #4 - Nov 10^th, 2005 at 2:36pm

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Yup nonstop. 23 hours almost. over 13,000 miles.

23 hours.

All I can say is that I'm glad I wasn't on it. 14 hours or whatever it was from Heathrow to Singapore was quite long enough for me thanks all the same. Tongue

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Reply #5 - Nov 10^th, 2005 at 3:20pm

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23 hours.

All I can say is that I'm glad I wasn't on it. 14 hours or whatever it was from Heathrow to Singapore was quite long enough for me thanks all the same. Tongue

Wouldn't be too bad with a seat that can really recline and be slept in... otherwise it'd be like 10 hrs in an Iron Maiden.
Wonder if they have sleeper berths, like on the old DC2s and some 747s (do I remember that right about the 747s?)
I'd have to be able to either lay down or go hang out in a lounge, or something... I get all squirmy on even a 5-hr flight in coach... torture.

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Reply #6 - Nov 10^th, 2005 at 9:45pm

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Wonder if they have sleeper berths, like on the old DC2s and some 747s (do I remember that right about the 747s?)

C'mon rottydaddy, airlines are out there to make money, not to give passengers comfort and use the luxurious interiors advertised by the aircraft manufacturers.

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Reply #7 - Nov 10^th, 2005 at 10:04pm

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um remember, lindbergh sat in the nyp for 33 and 1/2 hours.

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Reply #8 - Nov 10^th, 2005 at 10:44pm

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um remember, lindbergh sat in the nyp for 33 and 1/2 hours.

But for a shorter distance.

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Reply #9 - Nov 11^th, 2005 at 3:56am

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But for a shorter distance.

Well, he was going a tad slower. Wink

I don't know he & those other pioneer record breakers managed to stay awake all that time. I sometimes find to my horror that I'm dozing off during a long road journey - by long I mean only a few hours at most. Motorway driving can be terribly boring. Driving while tired can be very dangerous but at least I can pull over at the next service station to freshen up & have a wander round before continuing my journey.

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Reply #10 - Nov 11^th, 2005 at 4:14am

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I don't know he & those other pioneer record breakers managed to stay awake all that time.

Lindbergh got less than four hours of sleep the night before his Atlantic crossing.

As I type this, I'm in the middle of an all-nighter required to get work done (I fell asleep when I came home at 430). I know that when I go to school today, I'll have more energy than if I had gotten only five hours of sleep. Funny how the body alots energy, eh? (my adrenaline is like endless, I swear to god I produce endless quantities of the stuff)

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Reply #11 - Nov 11^th, 2005 at 10:09pm

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I'd like to see you in school...considering adrenaline prepares the human body to flee or fight.
Are you sure you dont mean Dopamine? 8)

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Reply #12 - Nov 11^th, 2005 at 11:42pm

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I'd like to see you in school...considering adrenaline prepares the human body to flee or fight.
Are you sure you dont mean Dopamine? 8)

It really is odd-I'm not like on edge or anything, but I'm not running off of normal energy either, I think my body is just capable of dosing out liberal amounts. Only thing I can think of.

I've been known to spontaneously flee from Algebra/Physics though Grin

(smacking the teacher has yet to come about)

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Reply #13 - Nov 12^th, 2005 at 6:46am

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Beef it called being young. While I am not a fossil, I used to be able to stay uptill 5am in the morning be up at 7 and have a normal fully awake day. These days staying up past 1am and waking up before 10 usually means I am asleep all day.
Enjoy it now:) Wink

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