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Just call me an aviation lab rat. My experiment was to fly on the world's first nonstop flight from Los Angeles to Singapore: more than 18 hours, the longest regularly scheduled commercial jetliner flight ever. In coach. Could I survive such stress? Would I be stricken with deep-vein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Really Long Haul | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

As I was drinking the first of 20 glasses of water to stay hydrated, a guy two seats away started coughing and didn't stop for 10 minutes. I thought, Can I handle 18 hours of this? Should I have bought that surgical mask? I was still getting adjusted to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Really Long Haul | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

I turned my attention to the entertainment options: 29 video-on-demand movies (there will be 60 by the end of March), 77 TV shows, 102 CDs, 12 music channels and even Nintendo games and mah-jongg. As a big Denzel Washington fan, I chose his latest movie, Out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Really Long Haul | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

So after a meal, a movie, some mingling and a four-hour nap, that leaves you with, oh, my God, nine hours to go. I read Jarhead for a little longer, then switched my video channel to the moving map display. It showed nothing but the huge blue expanse of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Really Long Haul | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

At this point, we were 15 1/2 hours aloft. Time for more food! I again chose fish (the Indian meal had run out) and it was as good as the first meal. I had brought a bunch of stationery with me, thinking I'd use the hours to return to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Really Long Haul | 11/14/2007 | See Source »

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