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Trans-Tasman competition to heat up as Emirates offers world's longest flight

2016-01-29 07:42:33| Airlines - Topix.net

Emirates will launch the first non-stop flights between Auckland and Dubai from March 2, in a move that will give it a brief crown as the longest flight in the world and effectively increase the capacity available for bookings on its trans-Tasman joint venture with Qantas. Emirates will maintain its current trans-Tasman schedule of three A380 and one Boeing 777-300ER flights a day, despite adding five weekly non-stop services between Auckland and Dubai on a 777-200LR.

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The worlds longest running airlines

2015-09-30 01:00:00| Airport Technology

From KLM Royal Dutch to Iberia, Airport-technology.com ranks the worlds ten longest-running airlines based on the number of years the carriers have been in operation.

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Longest Nonstop Flights May Be Getting Longer

2015-09-27 11:38:08| Airlines - Topix.net

The distance you'll be able to fly nonstop, assuming you actually want to do so, may be getting longer. Singapore Airlines once held the record for the longest nonstop flights with its Flight 21 between Newark and Singapore at 18.5 hours, first launched June 28, 2004 .

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Oldest, Longest Ancient Egyptian Leather Manuscript Found

2015-09-14 16:16:20| Semiconductors - Topix.net

Using a powerful X-ray procedure, researchers led by Vito Mocella, a physicist from the National Research Council's Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems in Naples, have for the first time been able to read letters hidden inside two carbonized papyri without unrolling them. Until now it has appeared impossible to distinguish ink from papyrus inside a scroll using conventional X-ray techniques.

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