Record of the longest flight in history: "It's unnatural, both for the environment and for passengers"

The Australian airline Qantas this weekend made the longest non-stop flight between New York and Sydney, 19 hours in the air. A test that precedes a desire for a commercial line, but for Axel de Tarlé, this record is against nature.

The world moves: Axel de Tarlé. This is the longest flight in aviation history: a Boeing from the Australian company Qantas has connected New York to Sydney in 19 hours and 16 minutes non-stop!

For now, it is only a test flight before the opening of a commercial line in 2022. Then, Qantas also plans to open a line from Sydney to Europe: London, Paris and Frankfurt. There it will be rather 20 hours of flight, always nonstop! It sounds crazy. On takeoff, naturally the tanks are loaded to block. There is 100 tons of kerosene on the plane, which is almost half the total weight of the aircraft. Which means that we are in the middle of asbestos: almost half of the consumed kerosene is used to carry the kerosene itself!

And for the organizations, 19 hours of nonstop flight must be terrible! At one point, we want to stretch our legs, to "take the air"!

Yes, 19 hours of flights, that means 3 meals, and how many movies, books? Except that at a certain moment, indeed, we can not take any anymore. During this test flight, scientists were just on board to see how the organisms react to a 20-hour flight on an airplane with a lower atmospheric pressure, which contributes to fatigue.

And then, it is necessary to manage the jet lag which, in this case, is quite lunar: crossing the Atlantic, from the United States you lose a day. You take off on Friday night, the day of Saturday is crossed off the map, and you arrive on Sunday.

In fact, we realize that all this is very unnatural, both for passengers and for the environment. At the time of "shame to fly" and Greta Thunberg, this plane will have consumed 125,000 liters of fuel. It's still thinking. This kind of performance, which defies nature, is very twentieth century. We must face the facts: Australia is a distant land, and it must remain so. We do not go for a snap!