The unprecedented experience is to be lived through a flight from the Australian company Qantas, in Airbus A380, during a trip of more than 14 hours. We explain to you how this is possible.
By taking place aboard the flight 63 of the Qantas company, between Sydney in Australia and Johannesburg in South Africa, you will never have been so close to living the experience of an astronaut. Indeed, during your journey of more than 2 p.m. and 11,000 kilometers, you will find yourself most isolated from any civilization, very close to the southern Pole of the Earth. On this gap, it will suffice that your path meets that of the international space station, located some 400 kilometers above sea level, so that humans closest to you are in orbit in space.
The situation is obviously not so common, even aboard the QFA63 flight from Qantas. It is still necessary a good synchronization with the journey of the ISS. But on July 10, according to Flightradar24 data, which hastened to share screenshots, the Airbus A380 path of Qantas and the ISS converged. By limiting the gap of the plane and satellite by their difference in altitude, the passengers of the Australian company were thus closer to astronauts than from any island of the Indian Ocean, or from any base of the Antarctic.
More and more new flights at Qantas, why?
Obviously, who says it moves away from all civilization also says it is evolving in a completely empty airspace. If the flight 63 of Qantas is so unique, it is also because it takes a road that no other company crosses, failing to have a connection like that between Sydney and Johannesburg. As line planes develop, more and more efficient and capable of connecting very distant metropolises without having to go through stops, Qantas accumulates records. His next goal? Connect Sydney to New York thanks to an Airbus A350 “ULR” (for “Ultra Long Range”).
The “Sunrise” project, which includes this new connection between Sydney and New York, will present itself as the longest flight in the world, with 19 hours of flight. It will be made possible with this new Airbus plane in the range of 17,000 kilometers. Other connections are planned while Qantas ordered twelve devices in all. These future direct lines will include London, which was not as non-stop that from Perth, on the West Australian coast, so far. In its fleet, in addition to its Airbus A380, Qantas is only based on Boeing currently, with 787-9 Dreamliner.
With its new A350 ULR, the independent extension will be 4,000 kilometers. A radius of action that is equivalent to a New York-Los Angeles flight or a Paris-Dubai. Impressive.
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