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THE FIRST DIRECT FLIGHT (Qantas Flight QF9) FROM AUSTRALIA TO LONDON HEATHROW AIRPORT landed today after 17 hours non stop flight on 9,000 mile journey from Perth on Australia’s west coast.
THE FIRST DIRECT FLIGHT (Qantas Flight QF9) FROM AUSTRALIA TO LONDON HEATHROW AIRPORT landed today after 17 hours non stop flight on 9,000 mile journey from Perth on Australia’s west coast.
In a landmark flight in the history air line travel, the first direct flight from Australia to London Heathrow landed this morning after 17 hours non-stop flight. The Qantas an Australian airline used a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, which is twice the fuel-efficiency of Boeing 747 planes.
This is a great development and achievement on what is traditionally known as the “kangaroo route” , which actually would four days and seven stops, back in 1947, certainly a big moment in the history of flight.
This is a big moment as it is the fitst non stop flight from Australia to Europe, another frontier broken by the human race linking Australia directly with Europe,
The flight Qantas 9 (QF9) touched down safely at London Heathrow’s Terminal 3 just after 5am , having departed 17 hours ago on a 14,498km (9,009-mile) journey from Perth on Australia’s west coast.
The plane , a Boeing (NYSE: BA – news) 787-9 Dreamliner achieved the journey, faster than scheduled by two minutes earlier.
Originally, similar flights would stop in either Singapore or the Middle East and the new direct flight as of today, slashes travel time by approximately three hours.
This particular 17 hour 14,498km (9,009-mile) flight by Qantas is actually the world’s second-longest, after a 9,028 mile Qatar Airways flight between Doha and Auckland.
The return flight from London to Perth will depart at 1.15pm on Sunday.
I have always admired the flight history in the first world and I remember in 2002 watching in awe as the concorde flew over the notting hill carnival the biggest street festival in Europe held in London attended by a million spectator. It was a majestic flight surrounded by the red arrows before breaking away and racing off into the distance, demonstrating its speed and power.
The Supersonic Concorde plane from London to New York would cost £4,590 one way or £8,292 for a return journey which would take roughly 3,5 hours on thesupersonic concorde while subsonic flights took roughly 8 hours, but sadly the concorde was retired in 2003 because of the high cost of running it, even though it was always said to be decades ahead of its time.
The Concorde was a supersonic plane designed by Britain’s British Aircraft Corporation and France’s Aérospatiale way back in the early 1960s, however the first concorde commercial flight was in 1976, and it stayed in service for 27 years for Air France and British Airways, which are the only two airlines to ever fly Concorde planes. More news to follow. By Sibusiso Ngwenya