An airliner completes the longest test flight ever flown commercially

Claim

A Qantas A350 completed a 24-hour test flight, the longest ever by a commercial plane, while Chinese researchers charged a drone mid-flight by laser at record efficiency.

Reported metric: 24 hours

Reporting date: 2026-07-30 (not necessarily the event date)

Sources

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• Welcome to July 30, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)