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Bid for longest commercial flight
www.chinanews.cn 2005-11-10 11:13:17
Passengers pose for a family photo before taking off from Hong Kong
airport, 10 November 2005. A Boeing 777 Worldliner jet took off from Hong
Kong 09 November in a bid for the the longest-ever flight for a
commercial jet, 23 hours to London flying east over North America, a
company staffer said. The company, locked in a bitter battle with
European rival Airbus for the lucrative long-haul aviation market, said a
demonstration model of the new 777-200LR had headed east rather than the
usual western route over Russia. The journey, which began at 10:30pm
(1430 GMT), is expected to last about 23 hours and cover more than 20,100
kilometres (12,500 miles), Boeing said.
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