If going along the circumpolar route, and at zero(!) altitude, it would take 23 hours, 56 minutes and 59.7 seconds - or 23 hours 57 minutes. The equatorial route, again at zero altitude, would take approx 2 minutes longer.
Well the average commercial jet liner travels about 550 mph and the earth is somewhere around 26,000 miles in circumference. If you incorrectly assume it could make the trip without refueling it would take over 47 hours. (A large commercial jetliner has a range of about 5,000 miles so you would need to land and refuel several times).
The record time set for a non-stop around the world flight was in a military B-52 in 1980 at 42 hours 23 minutes. It was refueled in flight and is not an option for commercial aircraft.
The solo non-refueled flight record was by Steve Fossett and took about 67 hours.
You can do it in under 24 hours
The earth is round or spherical, you can fly around the world in any direction you like.
johnny appleseed
In theory, any plane can fly around the world in an hour, regardless of size or speed. It depends on your definition of 'around the world'. No existing plane can do this at the equator. But any plane can fly along a line of latitude that has the same full length as the distance the plane can fly in one hour. The faster the plane, the farther from the poles its lines of latitude will be.
The distance to cover is around 900 Nautical Miles. A jet airplane would take about 2.5 hours to fly this.
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Around the world in 81 days
4 days
48 hours
You can do it in under 24 hours
a can of wallpaper.
a can of wallpaper.
29hours and 59mins
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Lt Smith and Huggs were the first to fly around the world.
Lt Smith and Huggs were the first to fly around the world.
To be the first woman to fly around the world in an aircraft