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- From: swc@dresden.uk.Sun.COM (Steve Cumming - Sun UK)
- Subject: Re: Domestic Aircraft
- X-Submission-Date: 22 Jan 1993 11:00:48 GMT
- References: <airliners.1993.91@ohare.Chicago.COM>
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 14:34:45 PST
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- > Another (slightly sillier) option that British
- > Airways used once between a flight from LHR (London-Heathrow) to SYD
- >(Sydney, Australia) was to only allow 50 people on board, and ship their
- >luggage on another flight. It went non-stop, though. :-)
-
- This sounds more likely to be the record flight made by a Quantas 747-400
- a few years ago. It was a delivery flight from London Heathrow non-stop to
- Sydney. They used a non-standard fuel and the aircraft was towed to the
- holding point of runway 27L before starting it's RB-211s.
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