{"id":2203,"date":"2026-08-03T03:24:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:24:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:24:03","slug":"new-airliner-sets-record-flying-24-hrs-nonstop-from-australia-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"New airliner sets record flying 24 hrs nonstop from Australia to France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Airbus passenger jet completed an ultra-long test flight between Australia and France lasting more than 24 hours\u2014paving the way for the world\u2019s longest nonstop commercial flights starting up next year.<\/p>\n<p>The Airbus A350-1000ULR was developed specifically for Qantas Airways\u2019 planned nonstop flights between Sydney and either New York or London. The Australian airline has ordered a dozen of the new airliners for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qantas.com\/en-us\/onboard\/fleet\/a350\">Project Sunrise<\/a> routes that aim to start offering tickets for sale in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft had been doing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airbus.com\/en\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2026-06-worlds-longest-range-aircraft-the-airbus-a350-1000ulr-takes-to-the-skies\">initial test flights<\/a> near the Airbus facilities in Toulouse, France, with a small team of test pilots and test engineers before conducting its first ultra long-haul test flight last week. After taking off from Toulouse on July 23, it flew for 19 hours and 13 minutes before landing in Melbourne, Australia, on July 24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/07\/new-airliner-sets-record-flying-24-hrs-nonstop-from-australia-to-france\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/07\/new-airliner-sets-record-flying-24-hrs-nonstop-from-australia-to-france\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/07\/new-airliner-sets-record-flying-24-hrs-nonstop-from-australia-to-france\/' target='_blank'>Read the original article on arstechnica.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Airbus passenger jet completed an ultra-long test flight between Australia and France lasting more than 24 hours\u2014paving the way for the world\u2019s longest nonstop commercial flights starting up next year. The Airbus A350-1000ULR was developed specifically for Qantas Airways\u2019 planned nonstop flights between Sydney and either New York or London. The Australian airline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3],"tags":[57,29,33],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-share-suggestions","category-technology","tag-impact-eadsy","tag-signal-avoid","tag-stage-stage-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}