DELTA AIRLINES POLAR ROUTE FLIGHT NEW YORK-BEIJING MARCH 3-4 2001 PAPERWEIGHT

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RARE DELTA AIRLINES POLAR ROUTE FLIGHT NEW YORK-BEIJING MARCH 3-4 2001 PAPERWEIGHT
Own a real piece of Delta Airlines History. Paperweight is made of lucite and weighs in at 6OZ.
Delta Air Lines conducted a demonstration flight from New York to Beijing over the North Pole over the weekend of March 3-4 2001 using a Boeing 777-200ER twin jet.  The 6,559nm, 14.5hr flight which left New York on March 3 was intended to validate technical requirements for future polar flight to bolster Delta’s bid for U.S.-China routes.  The weekend demonstration flight used the Russian Polar 3 route because the most direct route, Polar 2, is closed on weekends.  Objectives for the 777 flight included validating a prediction model developed by Boeing to forecast fuel temperatures in flight, and an analysis method for determining the exact freeze point of the fuel uploaded for that flight.  Fuel freezing was a concern on 747 flight over the pole, but was less of an issue on the 777 because of its thicker wing, where fuel is stored.  Delta ended up retiring the 777 fleet at the end of 2020 due to the pandemic and a strategy of simplifying and modernizing their fleet.  Future routes to China will like use Airbus 350 aircraft.
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