What is the longest time an aircraft has stayed in flight?
There are numerous records that might answer this: Longest manned flight: 64 days 22 hours 19 minutes and 5 seconds on 04 December, 1958 in a Cessna 172 using in-flight refueling and swopping low to pick up food and water from a chase car. Longest commercial flight: 10 December 2005 a Boeing 777 flew from Hong Kong to London over America (instead of the usual Europe route) covering 13,422 miles in 22 hours and 40 minutes. Longest military sortie: 5 RAF Vulcans bombed the Argentinean mainland from their home base in the UK. (Although apparently recently beaten by US B2s striking Iraq from the US, but can’t confirm. Longest unmanned flight: The UK government defense firm QinetiQ’s Zephyr UAV flew for 54 hours using solar panels recently in the USA.
