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

[Willie]

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

it was toooooo obvious

 

[offshore171]

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.

Didn't some Qld'er think DST was achieved by slowing the earth's rotation?

 

[bPeteb]

Didn't some Qld'er think DST was achieved by slowing the earth's rotation?

It isn't? Well how do we catch up on Sunday morning?

 

[ChrisMars]

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.

The A380 range is 14800. It is certified to fly on 3 engines. If you only use 3 engines at a time during the flight, and rotate them across the 4, you can increase the range by 4/3. 14800 * 4/3 = 20000km.

Not sure why Matt posted the south pole route though. It's the north pole route that will be used according to this article.

Qantas’ Project Sunrise could take passengers over the Arctic

The extraordinary range of the Airbus A350-1000 ULR – for ‘ultra-long range’ – will give Qantas passengers the ability to skip time-consuming stops and fly direct from Australia to any point on the globe.

www.theage.com.au