Comment by wat10000
3 days ago
That really downplays the amount of collaboration needed to make a flight like this happen. The airplane was designed and built by tons of people in lots of different counties, building on a century of aviation industry knowledge. The amount of work and experience that goes into making a machine that can safely be 5+ hours from a landing site is enormous.
None of that means you're automatically operating it on behalf of humanity or even to the benefit of all humanity.
“This is one of the more remote flights humanity operates.” doesn’t mean that either, so what’s your point?