If it were possible, how many hours would it take for a person to fly around the world, non-stop, on a commercial jet (a 747 I believe) taking the most direct route along the earth's equator?

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• My husband just said it took his business partner 14 hours to fly to Australia from California: so how can it only take one more hour to fly around the world? I wanted to know how long the trip would take at "normal" speed... I guess I did not make that clear. Also, thank you very much for your answer!

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  by Sherilane on March 4th, 2007

• The equatorial circumference is actually 40,075.02 km so it would take approximately 44.18 hours at an economical crusing speed of 907 km/hr assuming cooperative tail winds :)

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  by Reginald on March 18th, 2007

• Wikipedia

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  by Reginald on March 19th, 2007

• You didn't read it. It says the equatorial radius is 6,378.137, making the DIAMETER about 12,756.3 KM. You need the circumfrence, which was stated above.
  

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  by Anonymous on March 24th, 2007

• 40,075.02 km is the equatorial circumference which is what you need to calculate the answer to the problem as stated. I think nevets accidentially used the diameter to calculate this. You can't fly "through" the earth which is what this implies. I know this is wrong just from common sense because it takes 13 hours to fly from Detroit to Tokyo at these speeds.

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  by Reginald on March 24th, 2007