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The article has another factual error as well:

>covering 8,425 miles without taking a single break. For comparison, there is only one commercial aircraft that can fly that far nonstop, a Boeing 777 [...]

The Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 have ranges exceeding that, with ranges of up to 8,790 mi and 11,163 mi respectively, depending on the variant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner#Specific...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A350#Specifications

edit:

Turns out there's even more aircrafts that exceed that range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A330neo#Specifications

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380#Specifications_(A3...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A340#Specifications




I live outside Boston and frequently see a Newark-Singapore A350 fly over. A mind boggling distance…




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