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Qantas jet breaks 24-hour flight barrier
['Aggie Z Gatemand']
Gadget
It had flown non-stop from Toulouse to Melbourne in just over 19 hours, carrying four Airbus test pilots and five flight-test engineers.
The duration and distance of the return journey exceeded a famous Boeing test flight from 2005.
Neither Qantas nor Airbus had claimed a formal record for the latest flight at the time of publication.
The test aircraft, identified as MSN 707 and carrying the registration F-WULR, completed its maiden flight over Toulouse on 2 June.
It is due to become the first Project Sunrise aircraft delivered to Qantas in April 2027.