As Qantas reveals the launch date for its groundbreaking Sydney-London non-stop flights, aviation expert Padraig Prendergast speaks to the engineers, pilots and professors behind Project Sunrise

Qantas has revealed when the world’s longest non-stop commercial flights will take off.

Nearly a decade after Project Sunrise was announced by Qantas, the specially built plane will allow Australians to travel non-stop to London.