The new A321LR jetliner from Airbus lives up to its long-range designation, setting a new flight record for single-aisle twin jets of 4,750 nautical miles.

Adventurer Completes Longest Nonstop Flight. Latest ... 61, broke the airplane distance record of 24,987 miles while his lightweight experimental plane was flying over Shannon, Ireland.

The total distance is 9,010 miles in each direction. Luckily, passengers on the route have plenty to look forward to. Qantas is using its newest jet, the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, to fly this route.

Cancellations and closures introduced to combat the spread of the coronavirus have had an unexpected aviation side effect – creating a new world’s longest passenger flight by distance between ...

The flight is the longest flight by distance in the American Airlines worldwide network as well as the longest flight in Brisbane Airport's network, according to the airport.

Dillon Ruble and Garrett Jensen, two engineers working at Boeing, broke a record in December that had only a little to do with their day jobs: They set a new world record for farthest flight by a ...

The flight should shatter the existing distance record for a commercial jet -- known as the Great Circle Distance Without Landing -- of 12,455 miles. Advertisement. Article continues below this ad.

On December 21, NASA reported Ingenuity’s 69th flight was also its farthest, according to its flight log—over 135 seconds, the four-pound, 19-inch-tall helicopter traveled roughly 2,315 feet ...