The Secret Engineering Inside Qantas’ Airbus A350-1000ULR: How A 20,000-Liter Fuel Tank Makes 22-Hour Flights Possible

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The Secret Engineering Inside Qantas’ Airbus A350-1000ULR: How A 20,000-Liter Fuel Tank Makes 22-Hour Flights Possible

The Airbus A350-1000ULR is the longest-range commercial twin-engine aircraft ever built. The addition of an extra 20,000-liter fuel tank allows the A350-1000ULR to serve routes nearly 10,000 nautical miles (18,500 km) long, with flight times lasting nearly an entire day. With the first -1000ULR variant of the popular A350 family rolling off Airbus’s Toulouse production line less than a week ago, in less than a year, the A350-1000ULR will begin service on two of the world’s longest routes.

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