New Project Sunrise test flight: Sydney to London over the South Pole in an A380

[AFF Editor]

Qantas is launching yet another Project Sunrise test flight! This one will be from Sydney to London, but with the shortest route over Russia being currently unavailable, it will test a new route over the South Pole.

Heading directly south from Sydney, it will even descend to a lower altitude while over the South Pole to give everyone a chance to get a good view of Antarctica.

The flight will be operated by a newly refurbished A380 that's just come out of storage. See the reel on our Instagram page for more details:

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[offshore171]

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[opusman]

Playing with the "measure distance" tool on Google Maps, I can't get a route from SYD-LHR that goes anywhere near Antarctica without it being > 20000km, significantly longer than the A380's range afaik.

 

[Willie]

April Fool!

 

[Feech La Manna]

Next time Qantas talks about net zero and carbon emissions remind them of this unnecessary flight!

 

[ChrisMars]

I heard Alan Joyce will use one of his yearly golden ticket for this flight. A rare opportunity to see AJ in PJ.

 

[Cessna 180]

Probably need to try a bit harder next year Matt.

 

[kookaburra75]

Qantas is launching yet another Project Sunrise test flight! This one will be from Sydney to London, but with the shortest route over Russia being currently unavailable, it will test a new route over the South Pole.

Heading directly south from Sydney, it will even descend to a lower altitude while over the South Pole to give everyone a chance to get a good view of Antarctica.

The flight will be operated by a newly refurbished A380 that's just come out of storage. See the reel on our Instagram page for more details:

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Good effort - well done

 

[RooFlyer]

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[offshore171]

Happy with the replies?

Well spotted

Was hoping to see a few more reeled in but @Willie was too quick with the spoiler!

 

[Himeno]

Not funny. Will just be used by the flat earthers as proof of their silly claims.


April Fools belongs in the same bucket as Daylight saving. Pointless waste of time.

 

[RooFlyer]

April Fools belongs in the same bucket as Daylight saving. Pointless waste of time.

Probably not reasonable to expect points to be earned for moving clock forward or back.

Not funny. Will just be used by the flat earthers as proof of their silly claims.

I'm shocked that you think the claims are silly. How can anyone claim to be at the 'end of the earth' if there is no end and you just keep going round in circles?

 

[SYD]

Also fake but funny….

 

[RooFlyer]

Not a joke, unfortunately.

 

[CaptJCool]

Got me on this until the flight was heading up Africa …. Haha

 

[NM]

Not funny. Will just be used by the flat earthers as proof of their silly claims.

But everyone knows the Earth is not flat. It can't be flat. It has hills and mountains we can see, and the edge rise slightly to keep the water from overflowing the sides.

April Fools belongs in the same bucket as Daylight saving. Pointless waste of time.

I agree that moving clocks forward an hour is a waste of time (well, a waste of one hour of time). But turning the clocks back an hour is actually a gain of time (well, a gain of one hour of time).

But of course the real problem is that its during the hottest time of the year with the most hours of sunshine that Daylight Savings adds an extra hour of daylight to each day, which causes the curtains to fade even quicker!

 

[Quickstatus]

@Willie
People who spot it should not reveal it. Let others take the bait.

 

[DC3]

Not funny. Will just be used by the flat earthers as proof of their silly claims.


April Fools belongs in the same bucket as Daylight saving. Pointless waste of time.

Is that an April Fools thing?

 

[SYD]

Is that an April Fools thing?

No, my curtains faded thanks to DST….

 

[DC3]

But of course the real problem is that its during the hottest time of the year with the most hours of sunshine that Daylight Savings adds an extra hour of daylight to each day, which causes the curtains to fade even quicker!

And that was the feedback from the Qld daylight savings trial, where 24 hours in a day was considered enough, with no-one wanting 25 hour-days throughout summer.

And the cows stopped producing milk, apparently.