From: "Michael C. Berch" <mcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 3:22 PM >I saw a very, very short clip of that on the TV news, and it said Hong >Kong to London, and I scratched my head and thought, that's about 6,000 >miles, what's the big deal? I didn't realize they went around the long >way! > They took the windward direction, of course. > I guess it can actually do London-Sydney (11,000 miles?) with acceptable > reserves and without weight penalties, which is probably the last > unserved, economically-viable ultra-long nonstop route. > Nothing was said about payload, but maybe the word commercial was supposed to take care of that. How far does the long Singapore A340-600 flight go? It's in the air quite a while. I'm a little surprised that it doesn't exceed the 747-400 flight that was called the previous record in the press release. Gerry http://www.pbase.com/gfoley9999/ http://www.wilowud.net/ http://home.columbus.rr.com/gfoley http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pollock/263/egypt/egypt.html