Good morning
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Wishing you all a very productive week.
Busy week for me, lots of projects that I can’t wait to share!
On Saturday, I finally released a little summer film 🎥 it is linked near the end of this email!
Anyway, C’mere to me…
Project Sunrise
Qantas Airlines is testing several new routes which will all be the longest commercial flights ever.
On Saturday evening (Irish time), the first of their research flights that contained just 40 people flew and landed safely from New York's JFK to Syndey, Australia.
This flight took a whopping 19 hrs and 16 minutes to travel the 16,000+ km
“Project Sunrise” is a series of test flights by Australian airline, Qantas, with the goal to operate nonstop commercial flights from the east coast of Australia to London, New York and many more destinations in Europe and Africa.
All of this is made possible by a new generation of fuel-efficient and better-designed passenger planes.
“While a nonstop flight from London to Sydney has been achieved once, 30 years ago, it hardly counts — it was flown with a completely empty 747 that had no seats, and it barely had enough fuel to make it. The New York-Sydney route has never been done without a stop in Los Angeles.
When it landed, the flight, designated QF7879, became the longest commercial flight in the world, surpassing Singapore Airlines' regular commercial service between Singapore and New York, although next month's test of the London-Sydney flight will surpass this one.”
(read more - Business Insider)
As part of the research, pilots were even fitted with an EEG (electroencephalogram) headset, in order to measure brain activity and alertness.
The crew wore all sorts of activity monitors and they had to give urine samples every four hours.
The passengers were mainly made up of staff and press that were invited to take part as guinea pigs in the study. They too were asked to log their activity in a journal, information such as their sleep and meal routine.
The research will go towards working out what the best schedule will be for the passengers on board, almost 20 hours on a plane is a very long time.
Qantas wants to work out logistics, such as how many meals to serve? and what courses? how long to let the passengers sleep? etc
“Easing the pain of jetlag is a priority of the study. So when we take off from JFK Airport at 9pm Friday, New York time, the crew try to trick our bodies into operating at Sydney time where it’s already midday Saturday.
The cabin lights remain bright for the first six hours to keep us awake, and the meals served two hours in are spicy and light to invigorate the body (spiced tomato soup, green papaya salad, Jiangxi style fish). Alcohol isn’t recommended.”
(read more - The Sydney Morning Herald)
The London flight will actually cross 15 time zones… talk about jet lag…
“Qantas used this flight – and plans to do the same for the London route – to conduct research into how pilots, cabin crews, and passengers cope with the long flight time. In particular, data gathered from monitoring of the pilots and flight attendants will be used to help Qantas make a case to Australian aviation regulators that it's safe to have crew work in shifts for potentially 20 hours or more.”
(read more - Business Insider)
Smile 😊
An ill man from Dublin, knowing he hadn’t got long left to live, recorded a voice message to be played at his burial, and it is truly brilliant.
Photography 📷
Watch 📹
Yes, this is my own film, but I would really really appreciate if you checked it out and maybe even left a nice comment.
Thank you x
Think 🤔
Both concrete and glass are mostly made of sand which makes skyscrapers just really tall sandcastles
Profound 🤯🌊
The spiders that live in Bukingham palace are probably the decendents of the spiders that lived during victorian times - it’s a whole parallel royal family but with spiders.
That’s all for now 🤙🏽
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