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Qantas will research for Project Sunrise on 787-9 delivery flights

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Qantas is upping their preparation for the Project Sunrise flights that will take off in a few years. For this, they are repurposing the delivery flights of their aircraft and flying it in from New York/ London to Sydney directly to research how a human would react on 20 hours on an aircraft.

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Project Sunrise Update: Airbus seems to be getting the upper hand over Boeing

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Boeing and Airbus, both competing for the airframe for the world’s longest flight, have turned in their bids for the equipment that can fly between London and Sydney. But there are interesting developments at both airframe makers, which may determine the fate of who will fly the longest flight eventually.

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